25th May, 1978: Chris Morgan is born. He is a Nigerian Gospel artist and songwriter. He hails from Otukpo, Benue State.
25th May, 1847: John Alexander Dowie is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a Scottish-Australian minister and the Founder of City of Zion, Illinois, Chicago, USA. He passed on on 9th March 1907.
25th May, 1996: Thirty-six-year-old Zhang Xiuju is dragged from bed and beaten all night because of her Christian faith. Her dead body, with rope marks and signs of torture is returned two days later with the claim she died trying to jump from a moving police car.
25th May, 1865: Evangelist and ecumenist John R. Mott is born in New York. He served 40 years with the Young Men’s Christian Association, Y.M.C.A. (while the organization was still aggressively evangelistic), chaired the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference, and was named honorary President of the World Council of Churches at its inaugural session.
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