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He was taught Christians do not pray. Then he watched his uncle pray before a meal
Lere· 1981
Charles Diarra was taught Christians do not pray, until he saw his uncle pray before a meal in Mali. Years later he prayed to find the truth, and in 1981 he gave his life to 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.
After his daughter was killed, he prayed for a Bible no one could take from him
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan· 2020s
After his young daughter was killed, Rashid Kadirov, a Muslim in Central Asia, prayed for a Bible. A stolen New Testament and a JESUS Film later, he and his wife Aleka gave their lives to Jesus.
35 priests could not help her. In a church she saw Jesus crush what was choking her
North Central Province· 2021
Chandra visited 35 Hindu priests for an illness no doctor could name. In a Sri Lankan church she saw Jesus crush the demons choking her, was healed, and her whole family came to faith.
He prayed for his mother's infected leg. Then his Muslim neighbours started coming
El Hasahisa· 2022
Pastor Abdalla Sulieman prayed for his mother's infected leg in El Hasahisa, Sudan, and she recovered. As word spread, Muslim neighbours came to the church seeking Jesus, and he was jailed for it.
Karma said he had to earn heaven. At 17 he heard he could be forgiven
Rakiraki· 1990s
Simon Gounder grew up Hindu in Fiji, trapped in a karma ledger he could never balance. At seventeen he heard that Jesus could simply forgive sins, and he gave his life to Christ that night.
A soldier who should have died in battle walked into a demon's shrine
Myanmar· 2010s
Pastor Dano, a former soldier, fasted three days and confronted a demon tormenting a chief's son in a Buddhist village in Myanmar. In Jesus' name it left, and the village turned to 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.
His tough older brother went soft overnight. He had to know why
Ethiopia· 2010s
Yared Getahun watched his tough older brother turn humble and gentle after meeting Jesus in Ethiopia. He opened a Bible to understand it, and at sixteen he followed Christ too.
Locked in a cell a meter wide, he prayed one desperate sentence
Kurdistan· 2010s
Nihad, a Kurdish man from Iraq, was in a Syrian prison cell a meter wide when he prayed, Jesus, if You are real, help me. A figure in white walked in, and everything changed.
He was ordered to execute a rival. Something he could not explain stopped his hand
Guatemala City· 2010s
Mario Ajcip rose in a Guatemala City gang until he was ordered to kill and could not. His mother's prayers, an evangelist at the door, and Jesus turned a fighter into an art teacher.