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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.