I need names of three (3) Contempory Christian Believers who were persecuted for their faith?

Question

I'm doing a research paper for my A.W.A.N.A. group and I need to look up 3 contempory Crhistians who were persecuted for what they believed in.
Thanks in advanced.
(No hate/anything else Jokes. Thanks)

Answer 1

On December 22, 2006, Pastor Wang Weiliang and seven other church leaders were sentenced from one year to three and one-half years in prison by the People‘s Court of Xiaoshan District, China.

Pastor Van Thong and 11 other local pastors were arrested on November 26, 2006, for attending meetings organized by Christian leaders from the West. Van Thong is the head of Lao Evangelical Church in his province. He has been denied visitors and is being held indefinitely.

After being held for more than four months at the La Villa Marista Detention Center, Pastor Carlos Lamelas was unexpectedly released when his family went for their weekly 15 minute visit. Informed of the change in procedure, Carlos was able to go home with his family. However, he has been forbidden to preach in public on this Island nation that many Cubans refer to as a prison with bars of water.

Answer 2

Sr. Dorothy Stang.

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2254

Sr. Leonella Sgorbati

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7646

Fr. Andrea Santoro

http://www.asianews.it/dos.php?l=en&dos=70

Answer 3

Dieterich Bonhoffer, Karl Barth and Oscar Romero are 3 twentieth Century Christians who were persecuted for their faith, with Bonhoffer and Romero paying for it with their lives. I'm not too sure about any contemporary ones though. George W. Bush is one where it depends on who you talk to whether people think that the guy really is a Christian or not, so he might not be the best one to choose there. But, those 3 that I have listed are 3 Christians from the past Century who were all persecuted for their faith.

Answer 4

Dear Katie B,

1. John Bunyon
2. Eric Little
3. John Calvin

Answer 5

Brother Yun ("The Heavenly Man" book) - A must read for every Christian!!
Reona Jolly (Y.W.A.M. author and speaker)
Mae Hong Song -
Interview below

http://www.christianfreedom.org/PersecutionAlert/Burma%20interview.html

Here are some organizations that help the persecuted believers worldwide -

http://www.christianfreedom.org/about_cfi.aspx

http://www.asiaharvest.org/

http://www.ijm.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=178&srcid=-2

I'd highly recommend reading "The Heavenly Man" by Paul Hattaway. That book changed my life and is so good! Its tough to put down! Very moving and inspiring!!
God Bless You!

Answer 6

Pastor Li De Xian- arrested 13 times in six months for "illegal preaching" in his home country of China.1 Pastor Li was forced to assemble 4,000 Christmas lights per day during one prison term in 2000. When he didn't make quota by the end of his 17-hour workday, he was whipped.

Lipial Marandi- threats of death if he didn't cease showing the JESUS film, a movie based on the Gospel of Luke.Two weeks after the threats, in the early hours of July 27, 2005, the accusers entered his house and hacked him to death with machetes.In a premeditated attack, the murderers padlocked nearby neighborhood doors beforehand, preventing neighbors from coming to his rescue when they heard screams

Maximilian Kolbe- St. Maximilian was born Raymond Kolbe in Poland, January 8, 1894 In 1941, the Nazis imprisoned Father Maximilian in the Auschwitz death camp. There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker. On August 14, 1941, his impatient captors ended his life with a fatal injection. Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian as a "martyr of charity" in 1982. St. Maximilian Kolbe is considered a patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement and the chemically addicted.

Answer 7

Recent or just 3 guys who where contemporaries?

Coming to mind:
Jim Elliot: a well know missionary who was killed by the Auca Indiands, the people he was trying to save.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

Nathaniel Saint: Elliot's partner, he died on the same mission trip.

Cassie Bernall: a 17 year old girl who was killed in the Columbine School shooting. Eye witneses said that the gunmen asked if she was a Christian.

Answer 8

The Ten-Boom Family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_Ten_Boom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

Patrick Sookhdeo
Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sookhdeo

Answer 9

I don't know of any modern Contemporary Christians but here are a few from the past who weren't Roman Catholic and were persecuted and/or martyred for their beliefs.

John Hus
John Wycliff
William Tyndale
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Answer 10

I just read about one this morning. His name is Mike Adams and is a professor at a college that is having to sue his college because they have held him back since he bacame a Christian even though he has met his job qualifications.
Here is a link to his article
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/04/10/adams_v_uncw

You don't hear of a lot of cases in the U.S.
You may want to search for people who are Christians in China, Cuba, or in the Middle East