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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 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.
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.
Her church offering came to the exact amount of her power bill, to the penny
United States· 2020s
Lina Johnson never told anyone the amount of her power bill. Then her church took up an offering for her, and it came to the exact figure, down to the penny.
He carried a bomb into a church. The sermon was about loving your enemies
Jakarta· 2000s
Ahmad Quraisy carried a time bomb into a Jakarta church to kill the worshippers. Then he heard the pastor preach on loving your enemies, and he could not do it. Today he leads 7,000 former Muslims.
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.
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.
A FARC commander tried to wipe out the church. It only grew, so he looked closer
Cauca· 2010s
Helmer, a FARC commander called Comandante Geronimo, hunted the church in Cauca, Colombia. The more he persecuted believers, the more they multiplied, until he met Jesus.
He persecuted his brother for following Jesus. Five years later he followed too
Tizi Ouzou· 1992
Dassin, a Kabyle radical, persecuted his brother for following Jesus. Five years later, feeling like an orphan inside, he gave his life to Christ and now leads a church in Tizi Ouzou.
A cartoon about Samson reached a six-year-old in Mongolia. He never let go
Ulaanbaatar· 1990s
Mongolia had almost no Christians in 1990. Bat-Orgil Gantumur was six when a Superbook cartoon reached him. Years later he saw that God had been following him the whole time.
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.