February 4, 1928 - Manche Masemola Murdered for Her Faith in Christ

Yesterday on Christian History Today, we discussed that South Africa did not have its first black Anglican Bishop until 1985. While this was great progress for this nation, it looked vastly different only sixty years prior. On February 4, 1928, Manche Masemola was murdered by her parents because she refused to recant her belief in Jesus Christ. The South African teenage girl attended every Church of England service she possibly could, and when she refused to stop attending at the wishes of her parents, they killed her. Many years later, this statue (pictured) was constructed outside of Westminster Abbey in London in her honor.