The movie tortured for christ7/6/2023 ![]() In October 1967, Richard and his wife, Sabina (who had also been imprisoned for three years in the early 1950s) founded a worldwide ministry that would later be known as The Voice of the Martyrs. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his best-selling book, Tortured for Christ. Wurmbrand would somehow survive a total of 14 years in prison, before being ransomed out of Romania in December 1965. His crime? Pastor Wurmbrand had dared to defy the Soviet-backed communist government in Romania by preaching the gospel of Christ. That was the date Wurmbrand was blindfolded and spirited off a street in broad daylight, driven to a penal facility in another city, questioned for hours by the secret police without legal counsel present, and then finally thrown into a subterranean prison cell. ![]() For the late Richard Wurmbrand, February 29, 1948, was one such day. We all have particular dates on the calendar which bring a rush of memories to mind. ![]() Richard Wurmbrand (Emil Mandanac) is left to consider his fate inside a nail-embedded box in the docu-drama Tortured for Christ. ![]()
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