Author: Shalem John

Armed Boko Haram militants kidnapped Murna Yusuf, then in her early 30s, in July 2021 as she rode on a bus from Kukar-Gadu, Yobe State, to Maiduguri, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria. The terrorists found Yusuf’s worn Bible as they rifled through the passengers’ belongings. “They asked if I was a Christian,” she said. “I was not going to deny Jesus for anything—not even for Boko Haram.” The militants threw her Bible back to her, ordering her to pick it up. Then they separated her from the other passengers, most of whom were Muslims. “I begged them to let me…

Birth: 09-08-1939 Home Calling : 09-03-2021 Native Place : Villaverla Country: Italy Place of Vision: Mozambique Giocondo Pendin was an Italian missionary who served as a missionary in Mozambique. He came from a God-fearing family of eight children and all of them grew up to do ministry in different capacities. After completing his middle school studies, he entered Florence monastery in 1955 and began his training for monkhood. During this time, the word of God strongly visited him. He realized that he cannot be a child of God by ancestral godliness but only by repenting of his sins. He was…

Birth: 21.09.1452 Death: 23.05.1498 Native Place: Ferrara Italy Place of Vision: Italy Girolamo Savonarola was a preacher and reformer who died as martyr for Christ. Intellectually very talented, he devoted himself to the study of philosophy and medicine. As a young man, he could not bear the wickedness, paganism, and corruption among the Italian Christians. He recognized that the clergy who were in the highest levels of the church hierarchy are responsible for spreading this corruption, and publicly denounced them. Savonarola joined the Dominican monastery at Bologna, where he devoted his time in prayer and study of scriptures. After being…