They also pray that “criminal charges will not be brought against Matthias and Anna and the two other [Christian] converts arrested at the Christmas gathering.” The friends hope that the “authorities in Iran will cease to criminalize the peaceful activities of the different religious communitie...
At home with his family, he's a devout Christian who wears a silver cross around his neck, devotionally reads the Bible, and, on the Sabbath,hums hymns of praise to Jesus. Easter and Christmas are celebrated with homemade grape wine, even though alcohol is banned in Iran.AnuJ Chopra...
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For the most part, Jesuit Catholics had relatively few Chinese converts to Christianity. The Protestant missionary movement started in earnest after the Second Great Awakening worldwide revivals of the early 1800’s. For the first half of the century, China restricted missionaries to the area ...
Arrest of Converts Shows Close Surveillance of Christians in Iran, Advocate... November 30, 2018 JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – Two Christian converts from Islam planning to meet in a northern city of Iran were detained on the same day,... ...
This is a photograph of Sweden’s ‘first feminist government’ parading themselves in hijabs and long coats before Iran’s leadership during trade talks in 2017. When historians come back to evaluate the fall of European civilisation, they will no doubt have a good laugh over this photograph...
Saint Stepanos Monastery near Jolfa, Iran, in the province of East Azarbaijan, northwestern Iran. It is situated in a deep canyon along the Araxes, on the Iranian side of the border between Iran and Nakhchivan. As Tiridates’s health was fast deteriorating and he was losing his grip on re...
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Pray for true religious freedom in Iran.PS: Under Islamic law enforced in Iran, a Muslim who converts to Christianity faces the death penalty. Reported by Compass Direct "Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection... they were stoned; ...