Kenneth Harrod
Kenneth Harrod is Release International’s Head of Content and Theology. A former church minister and professional journalist, he has spoken about persecution both in the UK and overseas. Kenneth has travelled to Africa and Asia as a member of staff for Release International and has spoken at conferences to help church leaders respond biblically to persecution. He has written two books for Release International: Jars of Clay: What the West needs to learn from the Persecuted Church and Promise and Persecution: A biblical theology of suffering for Christ.
“I didn’t expect to survive”: the terrifying reality of being a Christian in northern Nigeria
21 June 2022In that time, thousands of Christians have been killed and many more displaced – the latter frequently ending up in what are referred to as Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Churches, homes and other properties have been destroyed. Christian leaders in Nigeria have repeatedly spoken of observing a clear agenda to drive out or eradicate Christians in order to Islamise the nation. Nigeria, which has the largest population on the African continent, is a federal republic and is…
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Remember the persecuted
28 June 2021Wurmbrand’s graphic illustration draws from Apostle Paul’s description of the church as the body of Christ. “If one member suffers, all suffer together,” wrote Paul (1 Corinthians 12:26a). Once labelled the ‘Voice of the Underground Church’, Wurmbrand was imprisoned by the then communist regime in Romania from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. His best-selling account, Tortured for Christ, was first published in the UK in 1967. Today the internet age in which we live gives us far greater…
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