Author: Daniel Corado

By Daniel Corado — Beneil Dariush got beat up at age 3. Instead of comforting him, his dad was puzzled: Pick up a rock, pick up a stick, you don’t have to lose, he told the boy.”Because of that, I idolized strength,” Beneil remembers. “I played sports and that was fun, but at the end of the day, it was always who’s the strongest. I got into so many fights as a little kid.” The biggest fight of his life was the decision to submit his life to Christ. An Assyrian Christian born in Iran, Beneil Dariush immigrated with his…

By Daniel Corado — The scorching Dubai heat of the sun gave Padma an idea: “God if you can’t help me can you at least like burn me,” she prayed to the Hindu deities. “I can’t go on like this crying each day like it’s becoming harder and harder.” When Padma had married a Christian, it was only on the condition that she would NEVER convert from her beloved Hinduism. But when she found herself alone in Dubai, her husband working a job in Iran, her loneliness compounded with depression and she cried out to the Hindu gods. There was…

By Daniel Corado – Sharing the gospel can now get you life in prison in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. “It’s designed to prohibit conversion,” says Stephen Schneck, head of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “You can definitely be put in prison for preaching the Gospel. If you take the Gospel seriously, you know our job as Christians to convert the world.” The new law is part of a trend in India to reinforce Hinduism as part of the nation’s identity against Christianity and any other religion that might lay claim to souls (Islam, for example). The…