Monday Prayers in Leipzig
On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand people filled the streets of Leipzig, East Germany, carrying candles. The Communist regime had stationed troops and armored vehicles...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 12:1-11.
On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand people filled the streets of Leipzig, East Germany, carrying candles. The Communist regime had stationed troops and armored vehicles throughout the city. Everyone expected a massacre — a repeat of Tiananmen Square just months earlier. But the soldiers never fired. The regime buckled, and within weeks the Berlin Wall fell. What most histories overlook is where those seventy thousand came from.…
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