98: Martyrdom in the Church Today (with Gia Chacon)
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Leah is joined by Gia Chacon, the founder of the nonprofit advocacy group For the Martyrs. For the Martyrs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to raise awareness about Christian Persecution, advocate for Religious Freedom, and provide aid to suffering Christians across the globe.
Gia also organizes the March for the Martyrs, standing in solidarity with persecuted Christians around the world. Follow her on social media https://www.instagram.com/marchforthemartyrs/ to find out about the 2021 East Coast March for the Martyrs.
Learn more about Gia's work at ForTheMartyrs.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leah Darrow and I share with you |
| 0:07.4 | inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. |
| 0:12.2 | We are inspired by Mother Teresa who said, |
| 0:15.0 | do something beautiful for God. |
| 0:17.0 | Do it with your life, do it every day, |
| 0:19.0 | do it in your own way, but do it. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm here with my sweet and wonderful and fantastic and brave and bold friend Gia. |
| 0:30.0 | Gia, welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you so much, Leah, and thank you for giving a platform |
| 0:35.2 | to the plight of the persecuted Christians. |
| 0:37.3 | Amen. |
| 0:38.3 | Amen. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, I guess that's what I'm doing today. |
| 0:42.3 | And that is what we're going to talk about is martyrs. |
| 0:46.4 | So let's just jump in right I love I love this. |
| 0:49.5 | We're talking about a lot of the work that you do really quickly Gia just tell us tell our listeners kind of what you're doing what you've started which with March for the martyrs and when you talk about persecuted Christians who are we talking about so |
| 1:05.0 | introduce yourself tell us about the martyrs those persecuted martyrs and then |
| 1:09.6 | we'll go from there. |
| 1:10.6 | Absolutely so again my name is J. Chacon. |
| 1:14.0 | I founded a non-profit organization for the Martyrs to raise awareness about the crisis of |
| 1:19.6 | Christian persecution, advocate for religious freedom, and provide aid to suffering |
| 1:23.4 | Christians across the world. Now many of us don't know that Christians are the |
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