![]() ![]() During this imprisonment he was tortured repeatedly, including being beaten, burned, and placed in a frozen icebox. In 1959 he was arrested again and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He immediately began his ministry once more in the underground church. Over eight years later, he was released with the command never to preach again. Sabina was sentenced to a three-year term of hard labor in a work camp on the Danube River, and Richard to solitary confinement at the dreaded Jilava prison, where he was kept in an underground cell and did not see or speak to anyone other than his captors for three years. ![]() In 1948, Communist leaders tracked the Wurmbrands down. They began an effective “underground” church that led to the salvation of not only many Romanians, but many Russian occupying soldiers as well. ![]() Pastor Richard Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina went into hiding, but not like rabbits in a hole. ![]() Immediately Christians came under attack. In 1945, the Communist revolution was sweeping the world, and it swept into Romania like a tide. Love their souls, and do all in your power to win them to Christ.” -Richard Wurmbrand “Hate evil systems, but love your persecutors. ![]()
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