Christian Martyr Stories

  • Mother of Lao Lia Po

    In the mountainous Northwest Province of Vietnam, a 74 year old Hmong woman had accepted Christ into her life. Her son, Lao Lia Po, followed her & accepted Christ. In 2009, after much pressure from authorities, Lao Lia Po, renounces his faith in Christ & takes his mother's life for not renouncing her faith in Christ.

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  • Shakeela Bibi

    On March 9, 2009 Compass Direct News reported that there had been gun and club attacks on a Presbyterian church in the Christian community of Sang-Wali in Pakistan.  The attacks left 16 people wounded and one woman dead and remembered as a Christian martyr.

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  • Tapan Kumar Roy

    On August 3, 2005, Compass Direct News reported that two Christian men working in Bangladesh were hacked to death. Tapan Kumar Roy, one of the martyrs, left behind his mother and younger sister Taposhi. This is his story as told through the fictional pages of Taposhi's journal.

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  • Vakish Patrick

    On June 3, 2009 Compass Direct News reported that a bomb had gone off at the Assumption Church in Kathmandu, Nepal. The explosion killed two women and injured at least 14 others.

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