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Mordechai Vanunu: The Whistleblower Who Exposed Israel's Nuclear Program
Israel / London· 1986-2004
Former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986.
Nadia Murad: From Captivity to the Nobel Peace Prize
Kocho· 2014-2023
Captured by ISIS at 21, Nadia Murad escaped and became the first person to testify about Yazidi sexual violence before the UN Security Council.
The Friendship Nine: Lunch Counter Convictions Overturned After 54 Years
Rock Hill· 1961-2015
In 1961, nine Black students in South Carolina chose jail over bail for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter — pioneering a strategy that changed the...
Three Days Inside a Fish: The Prophet Who Ran and Got Swallowed
Mediterranean Sea· c. 780 BC
The prophet Jonah ran from God's assignment to Nineveh, was thrown overboard in a storm, and was swallowed by a great fish for three days -- where the...
The Cat That Found Him in Solitary
Romania· 1950s
Richard Wurmbrand, imprisoned for 14 years in Communist Romania, describes a stray cat that repeatedly found its way into his solitary confinement cell...
The Horse That Broke Through Where Therapists Couldn't
Fort Worth· 2018
A combat veteran from Afghanistan who couldn't break through PTSD with traditional therapy found healing through an equine therapy programme in Texas,...
Sundar Singh: Meeting Jesus on a Himalayan Road
Himalayas· 1900s-1920s
Sundar Singh, a Sikh teenager who burned the Bible, encountered Jesus in a vision and spent thirty years walking barefoot through the Himalayas preaching...
They Adopted Three Daughters — Then Their World Collapsed in a Driveway
Franklin· 2008
Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman adopted 3 daughters from China. In May 2008, youngest daughter Maria was accidentally killed in their driveway.
Her Husband Was Killed by a Tribe — She Moved In With Her Baby
Ecuador· 1958
After her husband Jim was speared to death by the Huaorani tribe in 1956, Elisabeth Elliot stayed in Ecuador and moved INTO the tribal village with her...
Boris & Dushka Vujicic: A Son Born Without Arms or Legs
Melbourne· 1982
Boris and Dushka Vujicic were devastated when their son Nick was born without arms or legs in 1982.
She Died When He Was 7 — Her Words Saved Him in a Storm 20 Years Later
North Atlantic Ocean· 1748
Elizabeth Newton taught her son John Scripture and hymns before dying of tuberculosis when he was 7.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Letters That Survived the Execution
Berlin & Flossenburg· 1935-1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote his most profound theology from a Nazi prison — in letters to his closest friend Eberhard Bethge. Bonhoeffer was executed in 1945.