Late Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Bestseller Translated in over Thirty Languages

Posted by Richard Wurmbrand on September 20th, 2019

Romanian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina suffered fierce communist persecution for his Christian faith. On February 29, 1948, on a Sunday, communist secret police squads kidnapped him while on his way to church. He was held in solitary confinement under a false name for two years, in a narrow underground cell. After suffering 14 years of communist imprisonment, the Romanian communist government sold to the West, pastor Richard Wurmbrand, his wife Sabina and Michael Wurmbrand their son for a sum of Ten Thousand  US Dollars and so they were able to escape communist Romania.

During a Senate hearing, he described how he was held, 30 feet beneath the ground and how he received one slice of bread a day only. In front of the gasping US senators, he took off his shirt, undressing to the waist to show deep torture scars in his body. He told the senators: “I speak on behalf of my Christian brothers who lie in countless unmarked graves. I speak on behalf of my brothers who meet and pray and worship in secret. Their message is: "Don't forget us. Don't write us off.“

In his book titled God’s Underground, Richard Wurmbrand writes: On the wall of a civic building in Washington, D.C., I saw a large plaque displaying the Constitution of the United States, skillfully engraved in copperplate. When you look at it at first you see only the engraved words of the Constitution: then, on stepping back, so that the angle of the light changes, the face of George Washington appears, carved into the text.  Soit should be with this book, which contains episodes from the life of a man and the story of those who were with him in prison. Behind them, all stands an unseen being, Christ, who kept us in faith and gave us the strength to conquer.

Many of Reverend Richard Wurmbrand’s titles published outside Romania,  had been translated into Romanian and were circulated surreptitiously inside communist Romania. As soon as the communist government fell in Romania, in the last days of 1989, Christians inspired by pastor Wurmbrand’swritings, started an accredited high school in the city of Iasi, Romania. The school is named in Romanian Colegiul Richard Wurmbrand (the Richard Wurmbrand College.) The school has classes from kindergarten through 12^th grade, attended by close to  600 students. These students are taught that “There are not enough shovels on earth to bury the truth. And there are no pains enough to prevent truth and faith and love from triumphing at last”