Pastor Produces a Documentary Highlighting his Journey to Faith
Reported by Tracy Weare | vision.org.au
Monday, May 24th, 2021
An American pastor has produced a documentary highlighting the significant number of gun-related deaths in Chicago.
The documentary opened in cinemas in mid May and is in line for an Academy Award for best documentary.
The Christian Post reports the documentary has been noticed by celebrities including Denzel Washington and his wife, Paulette, who’ve rented out movie theatres to screen the production.
Titled, Chicago: America’s Hidden War, the production team was led by Christian pastor Dimas Salaberrios.
Pastor Dimas is a former drug lord turned missionary from New York, who felt called to do something about the gun war in Chicago.
I visited the church in Sri Lanka that was bombed
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I visited the church in Sri Lanka that was bombed
I visited the church in Sri Lanka that was bombed
Zion Evangelical Church in Sri Lanka was destroyed by a suicide bomber in April 2019. | Photo: William Devlin
On April 19, 2019, almost one thousand Sri Lanka Christian believers gathered excitedly at Zion Evangelical Church in Batticaloa on the west side of this island of 21.6 million. The peace and calm of this Easter Sunday service was ripped apart by a massive explosion, emanating from a suicide bomber who had recently sworn allegiance to the Islamic State/ISIS. The Sunday school children had just been released from their class and were awaiting entrance to the front door of the church when the Islamic State bomber struck. One of the ushers at the front of the church detected something awry and prevented the man with the backpack from entering the sanctuary. Little children were seated on