Resources by Topic: Persecuted Church

Randy Alcorn compares Christianity in America with Christianity in China and inspires readers to see heaven, not earth, as their home.

In 1900, during the Boxer Uprising, over 230 western missionaries and 32,000 Chinese Christians were killed.

Will you show God great in the way you die? Will you say, “To live is Christ and to die is gain”?

Christians murdered, enslaved, families wiped out (Spring 1998)

The following article tells of the latest Somali Christian to die for his faith. The aim of his killers appears to be to eliminate all Somali believers if possible.

More Christians are persecuted and martyred for their faith in this century than all previous centuries combined.

Polycarp (c 69-155 A.D.) was a leader of the early church in Smyrna.