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From Persecutor of the Church to Persecuted Pastor
Before he met Jesus, Ravan worked as a paid assailant for the RSS, a Hindu nationalist organization in India. For seven years, Ravan relished his role ...
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Seminary Student Killed for Witnessing
Michael Nnadi was a Nigerian, whose face projected a nearly supernatural joy. Michael was one of 270 students studying at the Good Shepherd Seminary in ...
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They Chose to Stay
In the film Of Gods and Men, director Xavier Beauvois tells the story of a small group of mostly French monks living in Algeria during a time of civil ...
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Muslim Background Believers
Philip Yancey writes about a 2019 visit to Beirut, Lebanon:
Christianity had its beginnings in this part of the world, and biblical reminders abound. Solomon ...
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How God Used Tragedy to Multiply a Call to Missions
Recently Pastor Ronnie Floyd shared the moving story of Missionary Howard Borden on Fox News:
In the early 1900s, 16-year-old William Whiting Borden graduated ...
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Missionary Shares Why He Risked His Life
Mark Batterson tells of a modern day martyr in his book Chase the Lion:
With his hands tied behind his back, missionary J. W. Tucker was beaten and then ...
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'When I Died': 22 Year Old Fitness Intern Shares Her Story
It's not every day you hear a story starting with "when I died," but that's how 22-year-old Amber Moloney remembers February 6th. Moloney, a university ...
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Chief Rabbi: When Judaism Is Easy People Lose Faith
Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, once referenced what he called the "counter-intuitive phenomena of Jewish history"—a phenomena ...
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How Clay Turns into Gems under Pressure
Geologist Dr. James Clark recounts visiting the Soviet Union a few years after Communism dissolved. He was asked to preach at a small Russian Baptist ...
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Willing to Lay Down Their Lives for Mars Trip
The non-profit organization Mars One has set the lofty goal of establishing a human colony on Mars by 2027. They plan to send four pioneers as a test ...
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