Saving my Assassin | Virginia Prodan
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Frankly Virginia’s story is nuts. Standing up to the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu, she used her skills and courage as a lawyer to defend persecuted Christians and fight for religious freedom. She was tortured repeatedly - yet even blessed her abusers as they did so, who on occasion turned away with tears in their eyes. And then one day a hired assassin drew his gun in her office and the game was up! You will be totally blown away!
You’ll love reading more detail of her story in her best-selling memoir ‘Saving My Assassin’.
Connect with Virginia and her work at www.VirginiaProdanMinistries
Her podcast is called 'Courageous Leadership with Virginia Prodan’ and can be found here: https://www.podbean.com/wlpi/pbblog-twbh7-b3867e
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| 0:00.0 | He took his gun and pointed to my face and said, |
| 0:05.0 | I'm not your client, I'm here to kill you because we did everything was possible and you do not listen. |
| 0:12.0 | He said with a smile on his face and then he added that by doing that, |
| 0:19.0 | he will become number one in dictators' rank. I heard the Lord saying, |
| 0:25.5 | share the gospel. Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbeau with Inspired. I'm so excited to be |
| 0:33.0 | back with another fantastic week of Testament, encouragement. If you're new to Inspired, you'll know that we just, well, we're all just sick to death of being and Encouragement. If you're new to inspired, you'll know that |
| 0:38.2 | we just, well, we're all just sick to death of being relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the |
| 0:43.9 | press that just induces fear and anxiety and cynicism and depression. We need to counteract that |
| 0:49.1 | with fantastic narratives of stories of different friends of mine from across the globe and |
| 0:54.0 | what God's |
| 0:54.5 | been at work in their lives. And guys, I have absolutely zero doubt this week that you're going |
| 0:59.8 | to be majorly inspired because we've got with us the wonderful Virginia Pradhan. Welcome, Virginia. |
| 1:05.7 | Thank you so very much, Simon, for having me here. It's brilliant to have you. So I think |
| 1:10.3 | you're in Dallas right now. |
| 1:11.7 | Virginia is an international human rights. We say lawyer over here. You say attorney over there. |
| 1:17.3 | She lived under communism, under Chowcchescu, and the story is quite incredible. I'm not putting |
| 1:23.3 | myself on a level with you, Virginia, in terms of your fantastic book, bestseller, saving my |
| 1:28.7 | assassin. I did likewise face a guy who wanted to kill me, but I don't think he'd call |
| 1:33.9 | himself an assassin. He just wanted to blow me up with a grenade because I hadn't given him what |
| 1:37.7 | he wanted. That was in Burundi about 20 years ago. But yours is more than 20 years ago, but I want |
| 1:41.9 | to revisit it and all your story because, |
| 1:49.9 | oh, it's so beautiful and there's so many lessons for us to learn from it. So enough of me, |
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