The Voice of the Martyrs’ statement of faith and main purposes define the bedrock beliefs, mission and purpose of our organization. Our newsletter and web articles are written and presented to inform Christians in the free world of the persecution and suffering of the church in more than 50 countries around the world. The mission VOM inherited from our founders, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, is to be A VOICE for these suffering saints. In our efforts to educate the church in North America about Christian persecution, researching the history of the church and of persecution plays an important part.

The Christian Post has released the identity of the Korean victim who was murdered by the Taliban, as 42-year-old pastor Bae Hyung-kyu, who led the team of Korean volunteers on a humanitarian aid mission to Afghanistan.

The following words were proclaimed from the scaffold prior to the death of John Dick who was arrested for treason by the Anglican Church. John Dick was a Covenanter and during the 1600's there was a struggle between the Anglican Church and the Covenanters. As a result of his arrest, he was sentenced to death on March 5, 1684. Here are John Dick's final words.

A few days ago I received a copy of the One Year Book of Christian History and all I can say is that if you love Christian history this is definitely a devotional book you will want to purchase.

Note: This post was written yesterday but Typepad kept crashing and I wasn't able to post it.

In keeping with my goal to highlight martyrs of history on this blog, today I wanted to highlight William Hunter. Hunter is known as a Protestant martyr and a boy martyr. Wikipedia tells us ...

The new year is just around the corner - can you believe it! Well, I thought that I would end this year with a brief run down of the most famous martyrs we all know and love and how they died. Yes, I know this is uplifting isn't it...well, it really is when you consider why they died, for Whom they died, and you look at their examples for inspiration. These are the fathers of our Christian faith.

Today, December 28th, we see on the general Roman Catholic calendar of saints to remember the Massacre of the Innocents.

Yesterday after I found out it was St. Stephen's Day I did some research on how that day came to be. What I found out was really very cool. I found out that there is a calendar of saints that the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Canadian, Episcopal and Orthodox churches have to remember saints of old.