During her travels, Sabina actively spoke to the Russian occupation troops about the Christian faith. The Wurmbrand’s also traveled to Budapest, smuggling in goods and food that were needed by refugees living there. As the communists attempted to control the churches for their own purposes, Richard & Sabina Wurmbrand immediately began an effective “underground” ministry to their enslaved people and the invading Russian soldiers. The Underground Ministry StartsĪ fter the war a million Russian troops poured into Romania, enabling the Communists to seize power. They also taught in bomb shelters and were arrested several times for underground Christian activities. Upon returning to their home in Bucharest, they joined the Anglican Mission Church.ĭuring occupation Romania during World War II, Sabina’s parents, two sisters, and one brother were killed in Nazi concentration camps and in the ensuing years, the couple spent their time rescuing Jewish children from ghettos that they were forced to live in by the Nazi regime. While the couple was vacationing that year in the mountains of Romania, both Sabina and Richard were converted to the Christian faith.

In 1936, at the age of 23, Sabina met and married Richard Wurmbrand. She graduated from high school in Czernowitz and then studied languages at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was born into a Jewish family and the town where she grew up was an important educational and cultural hub for the Jewish faith.

Sabin Oster Wurmbrand was born on July 10, 1913, in Czernowitz, a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became a part of Romania after WWI and part of Ukraine after WWII. For the greater part of the 20th century, one woman devoted her life to speaking out for the underground church in Eastern Europe. These Christians suffer for no other reason than for following Jesus Christ.

While many in today’s world speak of peace, for thousands in the church today, their world screams of a different word…persecution.

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