Just a point of clarification....the film was actually produced by a church in Austin, TX, called Austin Stone.

VOM is just helping them to handle orders and fulfillment, to help get the story out into as many hands as possible.

The film is POWERFUL! I encourage everyone to buy a copy and watch it on the 18th...with Christian friends.

Thanks Todd. The website was a little sparse on contact information.

My copy of the DVD is on the way!

The title "Malatya: The Story ofthe First Turkish Martyrs" is actually historically inaccurate. As commendable as the bravery was of these three Christian men, they were not actually the first Christian martyrs in Turkey. It is estimated that one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of W.W.I. Well over a million were deported in 1915. Hundreds of thousands were butchered outright. Many others died of starvation, exhaustion, and epidemics which ravaged the concentration camps. What, you may ask, was their crime? That they clung to their Christian faith and refused to become Muslim.

Hi Sylva,

I don't think you would make many friends in Turkey OR Armenia by calling the Armenians "Turkish Martyrs." The point of my title was that 2 of these men were the first ethnic Turks (in the contemporary Church) who were killed because they were Christian.

You raise an excellent point about the Armenian genocide. It is a critical justice issue that must be addressed - first in prayer, forgiveness, and reconciliation, and then later in political statements.

Only the Gospel has the power to heal a wound that deep or reconcile people with that much blood between them. Political statements are deeply insufficient.