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Nazi Aim: End Christianity
"When people think about the Holocaust, they think about the crimes against Jews, but here's a different perspective," said Julie Seltzer ...
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"Ruby Bridges": Confronting Enemies with Courage
Ruby Bridges is the true story of the 6-year-old black girl who became the first person of color in the U.S., by federal law, to attend an all-white school ...
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Gun No Match for Rabbi's Faith
A story is told about Rabbi Joseph Schneerson, a Hasidic leader during the early days of Russian Communism. The rabbi spent much time in jail, persecuted ...
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God Turns Persecution into Opportunity
John Rucyahana, the Anglican bishop of Shyira, Rwanda, served as a pastor in Uganda during the brutal reign of dictator Idi Amin. Amin targeted 200,000 ...
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"Dead Poets Society": Standing for Truth
The movie Dead Poets Society is about a controversial teacher and a class of teenage boys at a prestigious New England prep school in the 1950s. John ...
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God Protects Prisoner
Aberra Wata worked with Christian youth in the southern part of Ethiopia during the time of Communist rule (1974-1991). He reported the following story ...
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Lincoln's Detractors Recant
The influential London Times was one of Abraham Lincoln's fiercest European critics during the Civil War. After he announced the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
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Facing Persecution for Righteousness
George Galatis was an engineer at Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Connecticut, when he discovered something was wrong. Spent fuel-rod pools ...
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Courageous Fishers of Men
The movie, The Perfect Storm, well described the dangers of the fishing industry through the eyes of the crew of the fishing boat, the Andrea Gail.
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Forced to Renounce Christianity
If you become an evangelical Christian in Laos, the communist neighbor of Vietnam and Cambodia, you likely will be "asked" to sign a fill-in-the-blank ...
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