by Mindy Belz
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