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Persecution goes global: Over time, only the names have changed

Cover Story Sidebar | Puritan father William Bradford wrote that the persecutors of his day used "bloody death and cruel torments, ... imprisonments, banishments, and other hard usages" in their attempts to wipe out Christian faith. Nearly 400 years later, the only thing that has changed are the names. And, like everything else, persecution in 1998 is more global than ever. Sudan If there is a persecuting country of choice, this is it. An offensive directed by the government of Hassan Turabi against the mostly

Count your blessings

Cover Story | But this year, growing numbers of American congregations are also remembering the sufferings of their persecuted brothers and sisters in faraway lands

In this issue: "Pilgrims' progress," Nov. 28, 1998

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Buffing the rough edges

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A surreal legal thriller

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The new establishment

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Thanksgiving

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