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Oct 22, 20215 min read

Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List

Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...

Sep 28, 20213 min read

Sep 20 Christianity in Korea

Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...

Aug 14, 20214 min read

Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Jul 17, 20214 min read

July 17 China, Matteo Ricci and the Oldest Newspaper

Ying Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...

Jul 10, 20213 min read

July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman

Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...

Feb 5, 20213 min read

Feb 5 - Japans hidden Christians

Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...

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