Jesus gave “hope in a hopeless land”

She was barely five feet tall, weighed less than six stone, and sported freckles and flaming red hair – but don’t let her appearance fool you. Virginia Prodan stared down one of the most brutal communist regimes in history... and lived to save the assassin sent to kill her.

Born under the iron fist of Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship in Romania, Prodan grew up hearing her parents whispering fears behind closed doors. “They were very submissive to the government... fearful that they will kill them or their kids,” she told God Reports. But Virginia had other plans. “I realised I did not want to live this kind of life.”

Fuelled by a burning need to uncover the truth, she set her sights on law school. No easy task under a regime that monitored every citizen. “I passed the test, and I was admitted to law school,” she recalled.

But the truth she sought remained elusive. “I don’t want to be a lawyer any more. I can’t find the truth. There is nowhere to find it,” she once told her secretary in despair.

Everything changed when a mysterious client walked into her office. “He had hope in a hopeless land. He had joy in a joyless land,” Virginia said, baffled. When he invited her to church, she shocked herself by agreeing. “Yes,” she replied – a single word that would rewrite her destiny.

There, for the first time, she heard the words that pierced her heart: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” 

“Christ became real to me, absolutely real,” she said.

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