In the Presence of My Enemies
2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner! Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in...
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2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner! Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham return home in June 2002. In this riveting personal account, Burnham tells for the very first time the real story behind the news—about their harrowing ordeal, about how it affected their relationship with each other and with God, about the terrorists who held them, about the actions of the U.S. and Philippine governments, and about how they were affected by the prayers of thousands of Christians throughout the world.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780842381383 (0842381384)
ASIN: 842381384
Publish date: April 24th 2003
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Religion,
Christian,
Biography Memoir,
Christianity,
Inspirational
I read a book of fiction, "My Hands Came Away Red" about a group of high school students on a missions trip who are involved in an attack on church they have helped to build and are thus thrown into turmoil as they rush to escape being attacked and killed themselves. That book I found to be lacking...