On January 23, 1956, the Auca Indians of Ecuador killed five visiting missionaries. The impact of the deaths of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian had a profound ...

On Jan. 8, 1956, a group of Auca Indians in the jungles of Ecuador speared and hacked to death five American missionaries. The stories made headlines worldwide. The Auca tribe, which consisted of ...

Elizabeth Elliot, a missionary to an unreached for Christ tribe in Ecuador, the Waorani Indians, known as Auca cannibals, had her husband Jim martyred by these Auca Indians in October of 1958. I was a ...

Men armed only with the Gospel are again flying over the jungles of Ecuador where five young missionaries were slain last year by the Auca Indians, according to the Rev. Harvey R. Bostrom. Mr. Bostrom ...

What makes a missionary? What is the drive that sends men into deserts and jungles to face fever and frostbite, indifference and hostility? When so many nearer to home need converting, why should five ...

In this heartfelt memoir, Saint writes about growing up with the Ecuadoran tribe whose members killed his father in 1956, and about taking his wife and teenage children back to Ecuador in the 1990s to ...

“Faith does not eliminate questions, faith knows where to take them.” The Christian leader who spoke those words could articulate them because her life proved their validity. The Auca Indian tribe in ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28-- Ecuador's state-owned Petroecuador said it has lost some 5,000 bbl of oil output due to a continuing protest by local villagers that disrupted operations in Dayuma, Orellana ...