How can it be praised? Our duty is not to endorse earthly powers. Communism has made martyrs of our brothers. “My friends, we are gathered here today as the holy priesthood of God, to glorify the name of Christ – not the party. He knew that what he was about to say would infuriate the Communist leadership and place a large target on his back, but as a Godly man he found it necessary to speak truth into the situation: Wurmbrand, unsettled by what he heard, interrupted the proceedings to address the audience.

At the meeting, Communist leaders tried to sway those in attendance to deny their faith and submit to the new establishment. Church leaders, including Wurmbrand, from different religious organizations were invited to attend the Congress of Cults. The Communist regime quickly took over and outlawed Christianity.

On August 23, 1944, one million Russian troops entered Romania. The moving and insightful film is on Inspiration TV.Ĭommunist Control and the Congress of Cults Wurmbrand is the focus of the 2018 dramatized documentary, Tortured for Christ, based on his 1967 biography of the same name. His wife, Sabina, also spent three years at a labor camp. In all, he suffered 14 years of imprisonment (three of those in solitary confinement) and brutal torture at the hands of Russians. His only crime? His faith and his unwillingness to abandon it. Instead, he opted for the alternative: flagellation, foot whipping, mutilation, branding, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture. How strong is your faith? Would you hold firm to your faith while standing face-to-face with your torturer who wants you to deny your love for Jesus Christ? Would you refuse to concede, instead enduring years of excruciating pain and suffering?Įven for one fleeting second, would you consider telling your captor what he wants to hear just to escape? Or would you stand by your conviction that Jesus Christ is the one and only true savior?įor Richard Wurmbrand, renouncing his faith was not an option.

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