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1. Nun who was murdered in 1918 alongside other members of her family near the Russian town of Alapaevsk
2. South African teenager who was killed by her parents in 1928 because of her growing interest in Christianity
3. Polish Franciscan friar who was interned at Auschwitz by the Nazis in 1941 and volunteered to be killed in place of another prisoner
4. Anglican teacher who was one of the 'New Guinea Martyrs' murdered following the Japanese invasion of Papua New Guinea in 1942
5. German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi campaigner who was executed in 1945 after being accused of plotting to kill Adolf Hitler
6. Christian convert, nurse and teacher who was murdered in her bed in Chichawatni, Pakistan in 1960
7. Baptist minister and leader of the civil rights movement who was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968
8. Christian pastor from Wuding in China who was executed in 1973 because of anti-religion policies initiated during the Cultural Revolution
9. Ugandan Archbishop and critic of Idi Amin's violent regime who was killed shortly after being arrested in 1977
10. Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador who was assassinated during a service at a hospital chapel in 1980
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