From left to right, Chaplain John B. Patrick, Pastor Wurmbrand, Chaplain Straney, and Tom White.
I met Pastor Wurmbrand in Darmstadt, West Germany in January 1981.
From left to right, Chaplain John B. Patrick, Pastor Wurmbrand,
Chaplain Straney, and Tom White.
Biography of RICHARD WURMBRAND
Reverend Richard Wurmbrand is an evangelical minister who
spent fourteen years in Communist imprisonment and torture in his
homeland of Romania. He is one of Romania's most widely known
Christian leaders, authors, and educators.
In 1945, when the Communists seized Romania and attempted to
control the churches for their purposes, Richard Wurmbrand
immediately began an effective "underground" ministry to his
enslaved people and the invading Russian soldiers. He was
eventually arrested in 1948. Richard spent three years in
solitary confinement, seeing no one but his Communist torturers.
His wife, Sabina, was a slave laborer for three years.
Due to his international stature as a Christian leader,
diplomats of foreign embassies asked the Communist government
about his safety. They were told he had fled Romania. Secret
police, posing as released fellow prisoners, told his wife of
attending his burial in the prison cemetery.
Mr. Wurmbrand was released in a general amnesty in 1964.
Realizing the great danger of a third imprisonment, Christians in
Norway negotiated with the Communist authorities for his release
from Romania. The "going price" for a prisoner was $1,900.
Their price for Wurmbrand was $10,000.
In may 1966, he testified in Washington before the Senate's
Internal Security Subcommittee and stripped to the waist to show
eighteen deep torture wounds covering his body. His story was
carried across the world newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and
Asia.
Pastor Wurmbrand has been called "the voice of the
underground church." His books are best sellers in over fifty
languages.
The Wurmbrand Family
Biography of SABINA WURMBRAND
Not many women have their faith tested like Sabina
Wurmbrand. Her husband, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, was imprisoned
and tortured for his faith for fourteen years. During that time,
Sabina selflessly helped other Christians of the Underground
Church they had started together while struggling hard for her
own and her little son's survival.
Sabina was subjected to unbelievable hardships and
suffering. Yet, through it all, she never relented in her
endeavors to continue the work her husband had begun, to unite
the Underground Church. Living in daily fear of discovery, her
faith was tested to the limit--and held firm. She herself was
arrested for subversive evangelism in 1948 in Romania and spent
three years as a slave laborer on the never-completed Danube
Canal. Nevertheless, she survived to tell her story.
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