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Sep 22 Mega-funerals - Brother Bakht Sing

Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...

Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist

Today in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...

Aug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission

Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...

July 26 Padre Pio

Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...

July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman

Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...

June 2 Anthony De Mello

A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...

May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder

Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...

May 17 Marquette Mapping the Mississippi

We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...

Apr 10 William Booths Salvation Army

Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...

Jan 15 - The invention of Basketball

Today in 1892 the chaplain and teacher James Naismith published the rules of basketball. This is the story of how he invented it at the...

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