STORIES OF PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

Remembering Martyrs: Bonnie Witherall

Operation Mobilisation (OM) missionary Bonnie Witherall was up early on that fateful morning of 21 November 2002. Her husband, Gary, remained in bed, and she did her best not to disturb his sleep. It was not unusual for her to get an early start to get the tea and snacks ready at the clinic where sh

Rocio Pino

James Pino and his wife, Rocio, had already gone to bed for the night when they heard an unexpected knock at the front door. When Pino opened the door, he was met by two men asking for help with their motorcycle. He went outside to help while one of the men stayed by the door, where Rocio stood watc

Returning to Tchabi

“We thought that we had a paradise on earth here,” said a doctor who worked at Tchabi’s hospital. The hospital, along with a Christian school, a church and a runway, had all been built by missionaries who arrived at the mountaintop location in 1976. Over the decades, Tchabi had been a peace