The story has been told in Christian circles for 50 years. In 1956, five missionaries were brutally murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle by members of the Waodani tribe they went to serve. And then ...

CEDAR FALLS - In 1956, five young North American missionaries and their families arrive in the jungles of Ecuador to fulfill an ambitious and dangerous calling. Nate Saint, Jim Elliott, Pete Fleming, ...

Kerry Shook, pastor at FOTW, said that in the 1950s, five American missionaries made contact in the rainforests of the Eastern Amazon with a tribe that anthropologists said was the most vicious and ...

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 ...

MIAMI - Five Christian missionaries ventured into the dense jungles of Ecuador, looking to reach the reclusive Waodani tribe known for its violent treatment of outsiders. The Americans arrived on a ...

"End of the Spear" is a movie that touches the heart with a tale of self-sacrifice and forgiveness. It starts out by thrusting you smack dab in the middle of culture shock in the Amazon jungle where ...

NEW YORK – Far from home, five American missionaries died in brutal fashion: speared and hacked to death by tribesman in the dense jungles of Ecuador. That nightmare moment 50 years ago evolved into a ...

When Christian missionary Nate Saint was speared to death by tribesmen in the wilds of Ecuador, his sister retraced his steps into the jungle with a message for his killers: Love. And there she stayed ...

Steve Saint is a natural storyteller. He uses animated hand gestures and answers questions by trailing off into detailed tangents and funny anecdotes before landing at a logical stopping point. And he ...

(UNDATED) Israel has thousands of articulate defenders, hence the many critical essays about Steven Spielberg’s characterization of Israeli agents in his new film, “Munich.” But the Waodani, the ...

End of the Spear, a new film about the 1956 missionary martyrs in Ecuador, is similar to the Narnia story in some ways, says Steve Saint, son of one of the murdered men. Fifty years ago, Steve Saint ...