When Mrs. Elisabeth Elliot and Miss Rachel Saint went to live with killer Auca Indians last month, they took along into the dense Ecuadorian jungle a six-pound transceiver. Upon arrival near the Aucas ...

The sudden deaths of five American men who risked all to preach the Gospel to one of the most violent tribes in the Amazon River basin made headlines around the world. Fifty years ago today, the men ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago this month, five young missionaries were killed by an Ecuadorian tribe known to the world as the Auca Indians. Auca means savage. The tribe called itself, then and now, the Waodani.

On Jan. 8, 1956, a man in the company of eight other men killed Steve Saint’s father. Nate Saint died on a sandbar in the Curraray River, in the eastern Amazon Basin of Ecuador, where the man attacked ...

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 ...

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, five American missionaries were speared and hacked to death by a group of Auca Indians in the deepest jungles of Ecuador, making headlines around the world. A movie commemorating the ...

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 ...