Persecuted Church

With senseless violence occurring throughout society people are suffering and communities are groaning. Fear and not knowing where to begin hold many back from doing anything. But is "doing something" really what is most needed?

For nearly two-thousand years, courageous men and women have been tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs, contains stories of persecution up to 2001. Stories of heroic courage and overcoming faith. Stories of love of God and Christ. Stories of the amazing grace of God that enabled men, women, and children to endure persecutions and often horrible deaths.

Richard Wurmbrand was an evangelical Romanian minister who led a vigorous Underground ministry to his people enslaved by Communists between 1945 and 1966. During that period, he spent a total of fourteen years in prison, three of which were in solitary confinement.

In The Blood of Martyrs, Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martydom that took place during the first three centuries of the Christian era.

This Gold Medallion-nominated book opens the eyes of believers to the lives of martyrs, inspiring us to lives of unashamed faith.

What if your youth group were being hunted by something far more insidious than the other side in Capture the Flag? No, your students aren't being stalked. But millions of Christians around the world suffer political repression, discrimination, imprisonment, harassment, family division, rape, and torture because of their faith. Student Underground gently but inexorably forces open students' eyes to the anguishing, world-wide persecution of Christians-and how teenagers can start praying for, communicating with, and reaching out toward victims. Use these 4 sessions (along with the companion 60-minute, award-winning film Behind the Sun) as a high-impact retreat, a lock-in event, or a month of weekly meetings. Student Underground shows why to care. And how to help.

Today more than 200 million Christians around the world suffer imprisonment, abuse and even death because of their faith. Yet most Americans never hear their stories. In Their Blood Cries Out, Paul Marshall reveals the reality of this present-day persecution, revealing what we can do to help these brothers and sisters in Christ.

From the bestselling author of "God's Smuggler" comes this riveting true story of the Middle Eastern Church struggling to come to grips with hostile governments, terrorist acts, and an influx of Muslims coming to Christ.

This volume brings together seven seminal papers by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000, on early Christian topics, with a special focus on persecution and martyrdom.