A recent convert, Tessemma was wounded as the team set up their equipment for a nighttime screening. In Sierra Leone, team members showing the film in an area torn by civil war were captured by rebels and commandeered as slaves for months. Forced to go barefoot to prevent them from escaping, several of them developed serious infections in their legs. When one of them told his captors he could not go any further, he was killed with a shot to the head. More than 121 million conversions have been recorded, and the movie is currently available in 606 languages.
Millions participate every year.
It's planned for Nov 27 to Dec 26, 2000. The Bible repeatedly exhorts us to prayer. More than 43 million Christians have died for their faith since Jesus was crucified, according to the German news agency Idea. The estimate is based on religious persecution research carried out with a Christian publisher in the country. The number of martyrs dropped temporarily after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but began to rise again in the late 1990s with the emergence of Hindu and Muslim extremist groups and new dictators in Africa.