Author: Shalem John

Since Thursday, police have detained nearly 30 pastors and staff members of Zion Church, an influential Chinese house church network, in what many fear is the beginning of a new wave of persecution against Christians in China. The arrests took place in at least six cities across China. More than 10 officers broke into senior pastor Jin “Ezra” Mingri’s apartment in Beihai, Guangxi province, on Friday and searched his home all night before taking him away in handcuffs, according to the nonprofit ChinaAid. Authorities detained one pastor at the Shenzhen airport. Church members have lost contact with more than a…

Birth:18.11.1680 Death: 04.02.1747 Italy Place of Vision: India Native Place: Mantua, Constantine Joseph Beschi (or Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi) was an Italian missionary in South India and a renowned Tamil poet. He was a highly educated man who commanded several languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Portuguese. He received theological training at Ravenna and Bologna and was then appointed for the Madurai Mission in South India. In 1710, Besch first arrived in Goa and then moved to Madurai in 1711. In the early 1700s, there was severe political unrest in Southern India. The rulers of Thanjavur and Madurai were hostile to…

Birth:13-08-1818 Home Calling:13-11-1895 Native Place: New York Country United States of America Place of Vision: Syria and Lebanon Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck was an American medical missionary to Syria and Lebanon and the translator of the Bible into Arabic. Cornelius attained his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia with the help of generous friends. During the Second Great Awakening that revived the American church in the early 18th century, he committed himself to God’s ministry. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions recruited him to serve in the Middle-East missions as a medical missionary. After…