Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is the International Director of Barnabas Fund and the Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Matthew 5:11
Samuel, a young Christian man, died from severe head trauma after a Muslim police constable struck him...
At least 150 people (many more according to local estimates) were killed in an outbreak of inter-communal violence in the city of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria, which began on 21 May 2001.
Thousands of people fled their homes as dozens...
Javaid, a 19-year-old Christian student, was on his way to visit his grandfather in Punjab Province, Pakistan.
While waiting at a bus stop, he felt thirsty and drank from a tap belonging to an Islamic seminary. It was an act...
Jamil was killed in a bomb blast as he came to the aid of a neighbouring missionary family whose home had been targeted with the explosives.
Initially the police stated that Jamil (28), a Jordanian convert to Christianity, had himself...
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2...
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
According to tradition, George,...
On Good Friday 341, Simeon – the chief bishop – and others were put to death on the cross at Ctesiphon, Persia. This happened during a time of great persecution of Christians under King Shapur II. Simeon was accused...
Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful. 2 Timothy 4:11
Mark is traditionally thought to have been converted to Christianity by Peter and became a close follower of the apostle. The author of the Gospel of...
Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. John 13:16 (NRSV)
During a Cambodian Evangelical church’s celebration of communion at Chhirc’s home one Good Friday, one...
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Song of Solomon...
