Source: Voice of the Martyrs Radio, January 14, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTell me the truth! Dead or alive?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Susanne Geske heard the answer to that question\u2014that her husband, Tilmann, had been murdered along with two Turkish Christians, Necati Aydin and Ugur Y\u00fcksel\u2014she was overwhelmed with shock. The Geskes had been in Turkey (now called T\u00fcrkiye) for 10 years. It\u2019s a Muslim country, and they knew there was some risk for Christians. But she never thought their family would be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The five murderers\u2014ages 19 and 20\u2014were arrested at the scene of the crime. Turkish media members rushed to Malatya to report on the \u201cmissionary massacre,\u201d and they wanted to interview Susanne. She didn\u2019t know what to say when they came to her door the day after her husband had been martyred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praying, she asked, \u201cLord what should I say?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Holy Spirit answered with the words of Christ on the cross: \u201cForgive them for they don\u2019t know what they are doing.\u201d Though Turkish media often paint Christians as an enemy, with the Lord\u2019s help Susanne used this opportunity to share the gospel of forgiveness and the love of Jesus, the reason she could forgive men who killed her husband. Her living example of forgiveness was broadcast all over Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story and listen to Susanne on the VOM podcast<\/a> (24 minutes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n VOM Radio host Todd Nettleton also wrote about meeting Susanne and Semse in Turkey after the murder of their husbands in his book, When Faith Is Forbidden<\/a> (Moody Publishers). We also see that VOM is now offering free streaming of their two-hour movie, Sabina: Tortured for Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Voice of the Martyrs Radio, January 14, 2023 \u201cTell me the truth! Dead or alive?\u201d When Susanne Geske heard the answer to that question\u2014that her husband, Tilmann, had been murdered along with two Turkish Christians, Necati Aydin and Ugur Y\u00fcksel\u2014she was overwhelmed with shock. The Geskes had been in Turkey (now called T\u00fcrkiye) for … Continue reading Turkey: Tell Me The Truth! Dead or Alive?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}