Their aim was to spotlight the plight of Christians living under repressive regimes. 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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