In 1957 Brother Andrew smuggled Bibles across the Iron Curtain in a bright blue Volkswagen Beetle – memorialised in his autobiography ‘God’s Smuggler’.
Fourteen people have been injured, and a suicide bomber killed, in a terrorist attack on a Catholic church in South Sulawesi, just after their Palm Sunday mass.
Following Jesus is a pretty comfortable option in Australia—but for over 215 million Christians around the world it now means high levels of persecution.
One of the biggest threats to the church in in Australia, is a lukewarm faith. There's so much we can learn from persecuted believers who've stood firm.