Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Yali people In his book Lords of the Earth, Bible translator and anthropologist, Don Richardson, tells of the Yali people, the fierce, mountain-dwelling cannibals of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. For centuries it had been their practice to torture, kill and, yes, eat the enemy people of neighboring villages. Revenge and fear were […]
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Nike, Indonesia When I was in high school, a friend asked me to go to a retreat. But the day before leaving, I got a terrible headache. I wanted to cancel it but I felt that I had to go. I followed my feelings. I decided to go. After arriving at the retreat place,
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Suneetha, India, Age 20 I was born July 23, 1983, into a Hindu family in India. We resided in a place that was mostly inhabited by Muslims. As Hindus though, we practiced our religion faithfully. However, we were attracted by the Muslim culture and their monotheistic belief. In due course, our family embraced Islam
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) I come from a family where my ancestors were sorcerers, so I too followed my father in observing Hindu rituals and practicing witchcraft. The money I earned in this manner I spent on liquor. However the Lord was very gracious to me and redeemed
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) Obeying the set rules of the church, I had a very superficial existence. Many times I heard from my Sunday school teachers about the word ‘born-again’, but nobody could give me its definite meaning. As the days passed, a sense of fear gripped me thinking
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Yuen, China July 31, 2001 I was raised in a traditional Chinese family with a Christian Mother. Since Dad married a Christian against his parents’ warning, my Mom suffered a great deal for her faith (attacks from my Dad’s relatives). As a result, she was almost always bedridden when we were young (up
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Anonymous, India (personal information not listed for security reasons) My parents never wanted me to be a servant of the living God as they placed all their hopes on me. They wanted me to be a popular figure in the society and earn lot of money. The longing of my parents was turned down
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Singanahalli, India, Age 29 I was born July 8, 1974, into a Hindu family in India. Following the tradition, I grew up worshipping idols, visiting temples and offering sacrifices. Then suddenly, one day, I was affected by paralysis of the legs. I became very weak and could not walk. During all those days, my
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Suresh, India, Age 36 I was born January 5, 1970, into a Hindu family in India. As I grew up, there were no means in my life to know the truth. My parents were enthusiastic about idol worship, and I was also brought up in the same ardor. Entangled in the heathen set up,
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Jaya, India, Age 20 I was born August 12, 1989, into a Hindu family in Orissa, India. As a family, we used to worship the idols, perform various poojas (rituals) and celebrate festivals to appease them. In spite of my sincere devotion to our gods. I did not achieve serenity or contentment in my
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Thrisala, India, Age 19 I was born into a Buddhist family in India. I observed the religious rituals from early childhood and practiced it regularly. Being an ardent worshipper of Buddha I visited temples and performed the norms of my religion. One day I became seriously ill and my parents took me to various
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Anonymous, India I was born and brought up from an orthodox Brahmin, Hindu family. I used to worship idols and images as other Hindus do. Nonetheless, I did not have any peace in my heart. In addition, I used to get severe headaches. Sometimes, it persisted for a long time and the pain was
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Shipei (Jasmine), Singapore, 25 February 7, 2003 Personal note: Do you ever hate your life? I do, and I hate it for more than of my life; it was only when I was born again that I began to appreciate my life. The joy of God’s love replaces my empty feeling with a
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) My father who was a witch doctor taught us to worship many gods and goddesses along with the god Buddha. But we were always peaceless and disheartened due to the problems and sickness that came upon us one after other. And for deliverance we invited
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) I was born into a Christian family. Growing up, I never thought much about life after death or about hell and heaven. Instead I indulged in wordly pleasures with my friends. My only ambition in life was to obtain a high education and become rich.
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Sun, Nepal, Age 23 I was born December 5, 1980, into a Hindu family in Nepal. The village I grew up in was marked by a sickness which was prevalent in all the families staying there. Counting the epidemic to be the wrath of the gods, the villagers offered animal sacrifices to the gods
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Azali, Pakistan When I was 14 years old I was studying in a convent school at Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan. I belong to a Muslim family. My parents forced me to learn the Qur’an by heart when I was seven and so I did. I had a lot of Christian fellows (or acquaintances) at
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Anonymous, Sri Lanka, (personal information not listed for security reasons) I come from a Buddhist background and was deeply involved in the religious practices. But during my school years I observed a very strange happening. A student in a higher class was subject to ridicule and continuously taunted because he was a Christian. At
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Male, Nepal, Age 63, (personal information not listed for security reasons) I was a Hindu priest venerating numerous deities and worshipped evil spirits. I often offered sacrifices to appease them and hoped for protection and prosperity. But my efforts were of no avail as the pagan gods could not give me the joy and
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Anonymous, Japan, Age: 82 In Japan, Jesus is called Iesu Kristo. I didn’t like his name even though I didn’t know anything about him. I didn’t like it because I thought it was a different, foreign religion. My grandma, who helped care for me when I was young, was Buddhist and Tenrikyo (a Japanese religion).
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Dhanlal, Nepal, Age 22 I was born March 1, 1984, into a Buddhist family in Nepal. My parents were devout Buddhists, and they taught me to follow our forefather’s traditions. Along with them, I visited Buddhist monasteries to observe the rituals and rites of our religion. We also sacrificed animals to appease our lord
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information incomplete or not listed for security reasons) Atheism influenced my young life, and I strongly upheld to the teachings of ‘no God’ though I was born into a Hindu family. Having no fear of any god, I succumbed to many evil practices. I worked as a travel agent which gave
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) I had only a vague idea about a living God and I spent my time aimlessly. Years went by. And one day one of my cousins came to my place and told about a Christian worker who visits their place every Sunday evening to hold
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) One day my father came home as a new man with a beaming face. As we watched him in disbelief how he narrated how he accepted the Lord on his way to work. Apart from my mother, the rest of us hated him for his
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Male, Bhutan, Age 27, (Personal information not listed for security reasons) I grew up visiting the Hindu temples and bowing before idols. I firmly believed that the Hindu doctrines were real and true and they helped man to reach his destination. For the blessing of my education I often paid sacrifices to the pagan
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Manoj, India, Age 27 I was born September 27, 1976, into an Animistic (worshippers of nature, ancestral spirits, and many different gods) family in India. The superstitious beliefs of my family kept me blinded from the true living God. In our ignorance we venerated evil spirits and numerous gods. Our devotion went to the
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Nusrat, Pakistan I was born in an orthodox Muslim family in Pakistan in 1958. I studied in Islamic missionary school and college administered by Ahmadiah Movement in Islam, Pakistan. During study in a very zealous Islamic missionary school and college, I developed an interest to study Islamic religion. So, I joined the Ahmadiah Movement
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information incomplete or not listed for security reasons) Belonging to a family staunch in its religious beliefs I was taught to visit temples and worship numerous lifeless idols. But the Lord used my mother’s sickness in a powerful way to touch and transform my life for Him. While I was
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Anonymous, Asia (Personal information not listed for security reasons) Born into an orthodox Hindu family, I performed all kinds of rites and rituals with great zeal. From a young age I started consuming intoxicants and was enslaved by many bad habits. Having no awareness of the living God, I did not know that I
Myoung-Hee*, North Korea (Name changed for security reasons) Myoung-Hee still remembers seeing her father stumbling into their home, pale and weak. He gestured that he desperately wanted to speak, before breaking down in tears. He cried so loudly that Myoung-Hee feared the neighbours would warn the police. Her mother pushed him into the bathroom
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Male, Bhutan, Age 36, (Personal information not listed for security reasons) I come from a Buddhist family. As was the custom of my religion I used to follow the so-called traditions faithfully. Growing up, I thought that my religion was the truth and all the others were meaningless. In course of time my
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Anonymous, Nepal, (Personal information not listed for security reasons) Being orthodox Hindus we worshipped idol gods and ancestors. We visited temples to offer sacrifices to appease them and we believed if we were not offering an animal sacrifice, the wrath would come upon us. So we did all the rituals and invited a witch
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Yang, Nepal, Age 34 When I think of my childhood, I remember the pain and agony that I bore till I met Jesus. My parents died leaving me alone in this world and as a child I did not know what to do. Then my uncle took the initiative to look after me and
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Akbar, India For further information please contact me at: wmfc@rediffmail.com peterakbar@rediffmail.com My name is Akbar, son of Mohammed Khaja Mohinuddin and Navanbee. Before I could share my testimony, I would like to quote Romans 10:20 from the Epistle written by Apostle Paul where the Lord says: “I was found by those who
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Male, Nepal, Age 62, (Personal information not listed for security reasons) I was born into a Hindu family in Nepal. When I was barely twelve years old, I ran away from my home with one of my uncles to Bhutan. I was not truly helped and supported by him as I expected. Due to certain
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Male, Bhutan, Age 35, (Personal information not listed for security reasons.) I was born October 27, 1973, into a Buddhist family in Bhutan. My father was a Buddhist priest who faithfully carried out the temple activities. However, my parents’ piety toward Buddha did not bring any blessing. We became poor, and many problems haunted
Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Yali people In his book Lords of the Earth, Bible translator and anthropologist, Don Richardson, tells of the Yali people, the fierce, mountain-dwelling cannibals of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. For centuries it had been their practice to torture, kill and, yes, eat the enemy people of neighboring villages. Revenge and fear were
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Karl, Pakistan “There are Jews in Pakistan?!?” is the common reaction I get when I tell people I was born in Karachi, Pakistan. My father, a Catholic, was of Goan origin (Goa is a western province of India), and my mother comes from the Bene-Israel Jewish community in India/Pakistan. We moved to Quebec, Canada
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Emma, Singapore Emma was brought up in a strict Muslim home in Singapore. Due to her parents’ divorce and dysfunctional family life, at age 16 she made the decision to kill someone: herself. Emma determined to jump from the balcony of their ten-story apartment. Just prior to carrying out her plan, she cried
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Hannah, North Korea Hannah is a believer in Jesus from North Korea who has faithfully persevered despite suffering severely. Read Hannah’s salvation story here. This testimony was posted by Open Doors, a Christian ministry whose mission is to strengthen and prepare Christians living in persecution, and to mobilise the Australian church to
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Anonymous, Myanmar (personal information not listed for security reasons) Though I was born in a believing home, Christ was never real to me and Christianity was limited to the church doors. I was active in my church involvement but I had not real reason to do so. Once I had an opportunity to be
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Anonymous, Myanmar (personal information not listed for security reasons) I was born May 30, 1958, into a tribal family in Myanmar. I grew up worshipping the demon gods of my parents, but in 1976 when I joined the army; I became a Buddhist. Then following Buddhist rituals, I was good to people around me
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) Though I was raised up in a Hindu home, I had an aversion to follow the religious customs and I lived as an atheist. After marriage, my wife was mentally disturbed. We called the best witch doctors but she was not cured. Her condition remained
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Anonymous, Asia, (personal information not listed for security reasons) From early childhood I was trained to follow the rituals of Buddhism to perfection and once I inquired of a monk the ways to achieve nirvana (the state of perfect blessedness). The monk replied nirvana demanded nothing less than keeping the religious laws and good
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Sultan Mohammed Paul, Afghanistan INTRODUCTION Modern man groans under the weight of false conceptions regarding family, communal, and national excellence. These false conceptions, which are easily discernible in all types of individuals and at all levels of society, issue from self-centredness which, in religious language, is called “the depravity of man. This inner
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Anonymous, Sri Lanka, (personal information not listed for security reasons) Physically I became weak as I grew up. I was a victim of polio and arthiritis and was unable to walk. Though I consulted several doctors, I could not find complete recovery. I became wearied when I realized my destiny. The dark future that
Elijah, Myanmar Elijah* [*name has been changed for security purposes] faced persecution since he was in the womb. He grew up in a family of strong Buddhists in Myanmar. His grandfather was the local sorcerer. He could cast spells on people, Elijah said. He could tell what was going to happen in the future. He
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