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Arrested at the hospital where he worked, he turned the prison into a pulpit
Eritrea· 2010s
Dr Berhane, a new believer, was jailed 11 months in Eritrea for his faith. He smuggled in three Bibles, leaned on the Psalms, and turned his cell into a place to share Jesus.
He found a Bible in a secondhand shop and thought he was the only Christian in Yemen
Yemen· 2000s
Mohammad found a Bible in a Yemeni secondhand shop and gave his life to Jesus, sure he was the only believer in the country. God proved otherwise and gathered a hidden house church around him.
A widow heard the good news from a travelling salesman and could not unhear it
Laos· 2022
Pei, a widow in Laos, heard about Jesus from a travelling salesman and left ancestor worship for Christ. Her policeman son-in-law threw her out, and she chose Jesus over a roof.
You can kill me, but you cannot take my faith in Jesus
Bangladesh· 2021-2022
Nur Alam and Afzal Hosen left Islam for Jesus in 2021 and shared their faith across Bangladesh. Both were kidnapped and threatened, and both refused to deny Christ.
They locked the pastor in a psychiatric ward. He led a hundred men to Jesus
Astana· 2013-2014
Kazakhstan jailed elderly pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbaev in a psychiatric ward in 2013. Expecting to lose his mind, he instead felt the risen Lord cover him and led nearly 100 inmates to Christ.
He survived the killing fields. Then he baptised the man who ran a death camp
Cambodia· 1980s-1990s
Christopher LaPel survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields and met Jesus in a refugee camp. He became a pastor and later baptised Comrade Duch, the man who ran the S-21 death camp.
Boko Haram gave him a camera to break the church. He preached instead
Michika· 2020
When Boko Haram abducted Reverend Lawan Andimi in Adamawa, Nigeria, they gave him a camera to beg for his life. He preached peace in God instead, and held to Jesus to the end.
He fled the ruins of Homs. In a dream, Someone came to save him
Homs· 2015
Abu Radwan fled the ruins of Homs, Syria. Jesus came to him in a dream saying He had come to save, and the Muslim refugee was baptised in Beirut, even after his own tribe attacked him.
Police shot him mid-escape. In that second he remembered what his mother said
Rio de Janeiro· 2010s
Peter tried to steal a car in a Rio favela and was shot fleeing police. Bleeding out, he remembered his mother's words about God's forgiveness, repented, survived, and became a pastor.
He put a baptism invite online. 170 people came from across the UK
Bigbury-on-Sea
Merlin Kraft posted a baptism invitation online. 170 people travelled from across the UK to a Devon beach to be baptised. All the glory to Jesus.
Alisa Latty-Alleyne: The End of Her Husband's Life Was the Beginning of Hers
Coventry· 2020
Alisa Latty-Alleyne was a six-figure tech executive when her husband Benny died suddenly at 30. Three years later, suicidal on her kitchen floor in Coventry, she surrendered to God around 2020. Baptised at Coventry Elim Church, she went on to join Christian ministry and is now the first female UK director of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Chris Smythe: 2% Survival Odds, a Baptism, and a Big Miracle
Louisville· 2025
Given a 2% chance of survival after cardiac arrest, Louisville construction worker Chris Smythe woke from an eight-day coma, recovered, and was baptized.