George Zarris Family
Fernando Orieta was a thief. Since his birth, he had only known a meager existence in a broken, dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father, a fearful mother, and four older siblings. Drunkenness and strife shared their one-room living sp [...]
Pedro, an entrepreneur in Colombia, has built a thriving business servicing equipment for the petroleum industry. At age 48, he trusted Christ as his Saviour when Pastor Freddie Nieto established a church in Pedro’s hometown of Rivera and w [...]
Ashtad is fourteen. He has never known any religion but Islam, and he has never lived a day not under Sharia law. However, he is a very intelligent young man! When a boy in Ashtad’s neighborhood was diagnosed with cancer, the boy’s mother Z [...]
The cosmopolitan city of Sulaymaniyah, in the central portion of Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with Iran, has been a Kurdish center of influence and culture since its founding in 1784. Little did Ibrahim Pasha Baban know that the city he [...]
A DAUNTING TASK The city of Kirkuk, 160 miles from Baghdad in northern Iraq, is a microcosm of the country’s diverse society and politics. All of Iraq’s varied ethnic and religious groups—Kurds, Arabs, Iraqi Turkmens, Sunnis, Shias, Chaldea [...]
Victor Atto is a Peruvian missionary with a big heart. Following his salvation at age 31 and a 4-year stint in a Bible institute, Victor planted a church in the jungles of the Amazon 15 hours from his home in Piura. For 10 years, he labored [...]
Kerdoe Dwanyen loved school. As the firstborn son of his father’s second wife, Kerdoe made his father proud with his early scholastic achievements. That all changed in 1985 at age 13 during seventh grade when Kerdoe’s father died. “I nearly [...]
Paul Hattaway’s life was a mess, and he knew it! The dire state of Paul’s homelife was unimaginable. His father was hard-working and honest, but detached. Paul often received severe beatings with a belt that left him black and blue, but he [...]
Walter was a carnival (carny) man. Following in the footsteps of his Roma (Gypsy) ancestors, who emigrated from Europe to the United States in 1900, Walter learned by osmosis how to “hustle” from his traveling-carnival father and fortune-te [...]
The newest member of CRI’s La Luz Latina radio staff radiates the joy of the Christian life with his infectious smile and effervescent spirit. Confident, creative, and passionate, Caleb Delgado is the kind of energetic young man that every [...]
