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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doctors said surgery or paralysis. Her church prayed for twenty minutes
Nepal· 1999
In 1999 a spinal growth was paralysing Gita Shakya. After her Nepali church prayed for twenty minutes the feeling returned, and the surgery was never needed.