Hello, I am Paul Robinson, CEO of Release International – a charity that enables Christians in the UK and Ireland to engage with their persecuted brothers and sisters around the world by praying with them, by offering practical support and by learning lessons of true Christian discipleship with them.

A story of Godly courage

In my first week as CEO of Release, I met a pastor from Nigeria who told me how one evening some Islamist extremists came to his home seeking to kill him. They put a gun to his head to shoot him, but before they could, he asked them if he could kneel and pray.

Knowing this might be his last day on earth he prayed for the assassins, asking God to forgive them. Then suddenly something happened - the assassins decided to leave saying they could not kill a man of God.