From my Corner

Persecution has always been part of the expansion of the Gospel. As a child, I remember stones being thrown, by orders of the Catholic priest, at the tent my father raised to start a new church in one of the neighbourhoods in Campinas—incidentally the same area where my office is now. Swedish missionaries had invaded Catholic territory, ignoring any “comity” law, and in the early 1960’s there was no dialogue between Evangelicals and Catholics in Brazil. Thirty years later I experienced the same hostility from representatives of the majority church when preaching in the interior of Paraguay.

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