You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:14 Liibaan Ibraahim Xasan (1994) A Distinctive Life Liibaan was a Somali Christian who was ambushed by two Muslim extremists when walking to work in Mogadishu on...
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Those the LORD has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 51:11 Minka Hanskamp and Margaret Morgan (1975)...
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For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Philippians 3:18 Lutheran Pastors (1918-19) Persecuted by Bolsheviks After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Church in...
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You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, suffering – what kinds of things happened to me … the persecutions I endured. 2 Timothy 3:10-11 Alexander (251) Worn out by...
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I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their...
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Rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Luke 10:20b Madobe Abdi (2010) Hit-listed by Militants Madobe, a Christian convert from Islam, was the leader of an underground church in the village of Mahaday, near Jowhar, in the strongly Islamic...
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God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5b Leocritia (859) Brave Convert Conversion to Christianity was punishable by death in Spain during the period of Islamic rule. Despite this, Leocritia secretly...
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We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Larry and Jean Elliot (2004) “Absent from the body, present with the Lord” After only 23 days in Iraq, Larry and Jean, veteran missionaries who felt called to serve God in this war-torn country...
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I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. Acts 10:34b-35 (NRSV) Elder Pak Kwanjoon (1945) A Bold Activist Born in Korea in 1875, Pak Kwanjoon studied...
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I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. Job 19:25-26 Alexander Puasa and his Daughter (2002) Kidnapped and Killed Alexander, 46, was...
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