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"Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls..."

Grain of Wheat(October 2008) - As our minibus left, the Muslim man sitting in front pointed out the widow and said in the local Oromiffa language, “Achidha, achi, achi - it is this one, this one, this one.” It is not the first time this has happened. On my travels to the area, I often hear people talk about the evangelist the moment we pass the spot where he was slain in front of his family. Why are they discussing the death of an “infidel”, two years on?

 

Finding a New Family

Lilian Kumzwan(April 2008) - Lilian Kumzwan and her husband, Jacob Kumzwan, adopted their two nephews, Nantur (16) and Nanpak (14) Wilson, after both their parents were killed in religious riots in 2004.

Sani Kibili Released from Prison

Sani Kibili(February 2009) - Sani Kibili, the 55 year old Christian who had been sentenced to three years in prison for alleged blasphemy against Islam in October 2007, was released on January 15, 2009.

   

A Secret Believer Dreams about Christ

Muslim Couple“I am Muslim Sunni and my wife Muslim Shiite, which is an interesting mixture. Together we [have] four children, and in business we did quite well. A few years ago I developed very bad headaches, which became so extreme, that I sometimes in desperation hit my head against the wall repeatedly to make the pain go away. My wife and I did not know what to do, till that day…”

 

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Brother Andrew's Story
Brother Andrew

Read the story of how Brother Andrew's search for adventure led him to the greatest adventure ever.

Finally, one night "a fragile little event occurred that changed my life far more radically than the bullet that had torn through bone and muscle a year before.  It was a stormy night in the dead of winter, 1950.  The sleet blew... as it can only blow in Holland in mid-January... There were many voices in that wind."




North Korea Celebrates Leaders Birthday

CRISES AS LEADER TURNS 68 

Halton Hills, ON (Feb. 16, 2010) – Most people in North Korea will celebrate the 68th birthday of North Korean “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-Il today with parades, cultural performances and other special events. February 16 is a national holiday. It is considered the most important date in North Korea along with April 15, which is the day on which Kim Jong Il’s father Kim Il-Sung was born. While Kim Jong-Il is being showered with expensive gifts, the North Korean people are being tortured by their government as two forced combat campaigns of 150 days and 100 days are continuing. In these periods almost every citizen has to work actively for the state or face imprisonment. Christians are even under more scrutiny during these combat campaigns.
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North Korea Top Persecutor of Christians for Eighth Straight Year

IRAN JUMPS TO SECOND PLACE ON WORLD WATCH LIST 

 

Halton Hills, ON (January, 2010) – Two of the most notorious and restrictive regimes in the world top the Open Doors 2010 World Watch List (WWL) of 50 countries which are the worst persecutors of Christians. In the No. 1 spot for the eighth straight time is North Korea, the country where every religious activity is recognized as an insurrection to the North Korean socialist principles. In 2009, the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Il targeted Christians all over the country. That resulted in arrests, torture and killings. North Korean leaders are desperately trying to control society in order to eradicate all Christian activities. There are an estimated 200,000 North Koreans in political prisons, including 40,000 to 60,000 Christians.  A veteran North Korean watcher, who can’t be identified due to security reasons, states: “Christians are the target of fierce government action, and once caught, are not regarded as human. Last year we had evidence that some were used as guinea pigs to test chemical and biological weapons.”  
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Moroccan Authorities Raid Bible Study, Arrest Christians
By Pablo Fredrick   MARSEILLES, France, February 9 (Compass Direct News) – A large, military-led team of Moroccan authorities raided a Bible study in a small city southeast of Marrakech last week, arresting 18 Moroccans and deporting a U.S. citizen, area Christian leaders said. Approximately 60 officers from the Moroccan security services on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 4) raided the home of a Christian in Amizmiz, a picturesque city of 10,000 mainly Berber people 56 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Marrakech. A church Bible study was in progress at the home with visitors from western and southern Morocco, the leaders said.  Five of the 18 people held for 14 hours were small children, two of them infants no more than 6 months old. The other small children ranged from 20 months to 4 years old, and also detained was the visiting 16-year-old nephew of one of the participants. The Christian leaders said authorities interrogated participants in the Bible study for 14 hours. The authorities filmed the interrogations with digital video cameras and cell phones.
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