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in danger.’. An interview with Lazarus Yeghnazar on why Western Christians should focus on leaders not numbers in the Islamic republic. Now, it’s the war in Yemen, the war in Syria.
Prior to World War I and the Assyrian Genocide, the population of Urmia was 40% to 50% Christian, for example. This group had a faltering start but has existed as a separate church since Pope Julius III consecrated Yohannan Sulaqa as Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon in 1553. The Christian Post is the nation’s most comprehensive Christian news website and was launched in March 2004, incorporated with the vision of delivering up-to-date news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines. We’re available 24/7.
Almost all rights … But for a country that is closed and persecutes Christianity, that number is a huge indication of the gospel growth.” Ansari told The Christian Post in 2018 that Iran had “one of the fastest growing underground church movements in Last Updated Sep 10th, 2020 at 1:34 pm A new survey by a Netherlands-based research group has supported the claims of rapid church growth inside Iran in recent years. Ads are what helps us bring you premium content! ‘If a Muslim is baptised as So, in general, Christians have been pushed to a corner.
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Christians have been suffering for the last four decades in Iran.
People in Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, are fleeing Islam in droves as believers bow their knee to Jesus and become aggressively pro-Israel, according … Most of the victims were indigenous Assyrians and Armenians, members of the Assyrian Church of the East and of Orthodox Churches. Some historians[which?] In case of a war, thousands of Christian families will become internally displaced as well as thousands will flee the country.
Chaim Malespin and the Aliyah Return Center. According to the Acts of the Apostles there were Persians, Parthians and Medes among the very first new Christian converts at Pentecost. Comment on articles with the Disrn community, Access the members-only podcast with Adam Ford. Iran: "American Soil is Now Within the Range of Iranian Bombs", 2020-09-05 Watch for Election Meddling by Iran and Other Adversaries of America , 2020-08 … [35] More recently the Iranian-American pastor and former Muslim Saeed Abedini, who in 2013 was sentenced to eight years prison, allegedly "Helped to build the country’s underground Christian church network".
If they stay their lives will be Alavi also indicated that most converts "are ordinary people, whose jobs are selling sandwiches or similar things," going against the government narrative that converts are Western-trained agents trying to undermine the nation. This harvest is huge and will need great collaborative work.
In a follow-up this week, he explained how Suleimani’s death affects Iranian Christians. How committed is the growing church? They responded by saying that: 'We see Muslim clerics and those who preach from the pulpit talk against each other all the time. A subscription grants you instant access to members-only opinion pieces, exclusive podcasts, and more!
Some Christian ex-Muslims emigrate from Iran for educational, political, security or economic reasons. They directed their operations towards supporting the extant churches of the country while improving education and health-care.
I have been watching this situation very carefully, and already some of the Ayatollahs are abandoning the bus.
“One-point-five percent becoming Christian may not seem a big number, but for a country that is closed and persecuted towards Christianity that number is a huge indication of the Gospel growth.”. It will be a humanitarian crisis. CTWeekly delivers the best content from ChristianityToday.com to your inbox each week. Given these contradictions between the Islamic Republic and the wider Iranian society it is not surprising that the Supreme Leader regards ‘cultural invasion' as more dangerous than a military invasion.". Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, Iran has been ruled through a hardline Islamic Regime. It has always been a minority religion relative to the majority state religions (Zoroastrianism before the Islamic conquest, Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages and Shia Islam in modern times), though it had a much larger representation in the past than it does today. Christians in Iran are likely to face increasing pressure in 2020. This took place both within Iran and abroad, among the Iranian diaspora. Love for their country and the Iranian church, as well as a successful engineering business, led them to stay in their home during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. You have two choices on how to spend it for the kingdom: You can lead 5,000 people to Christ, or you can develop 10 Apostle Pauls.” What would you do? One of the key leaders who spearheaded this movement was the Assemblies of God bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr. Lazarus Yeghnazar, whose research suggests as many as 1 million Christians now live in Iran, has been expecting something like this for years. ‘This has Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A national clampdown on Christianity has driven many Iranian church leaders overseas. ? Every time we mingle with politics and governance, we become corrupt. Freedom of worship, freedom of meeting together, are nonexistent. If Islam is the religion of peace, then before anything else, there must be cordiality and peace among the clerics themselves.'". How should the church be preparing leaders for a future role in Iran? a Christian he or she can end up in prison for a year, while the person who [26], Beginning in the 1970s some Protestant pastors started to hold church services in homes in Persian, rather than in one of the ethnic Christian minority languages such as Armenian or Syriac. When people ask, “Is it right for Christians to be in politics?” the answer is yes—if they can bring godly governance to the table. I would not even blink. The survey also revealed that Iranians are turning from Islam. My concern is that God is going to open Iran, and we are not ready for the opportunity. Significant immigration of Assyrians from Iraq has been recorded during this period, due to massacres and harassment in post-Saddam Iraq. Subscribe to CT and Iranian Christians will suffer more than any segment of society. For example, in 1606 during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18), king Abbas I resettled some 300,000 Armenians deeper within modern-day Iran, as well as establishing their own quarter in the then-capital Isfahan, which is still largely populated by Christian Armenians some four centuries later: the New Julfa district. The church cannot keep all these people in her womb and miscarry all this potential leadership by mislabeling them as “proud.” They are proud, and they are arrogant. They expressed their concerns over treatment of three Iranian Christians imprisoned in Iran. Yeghnazar and his wife, Maggie, married in Tehran shortly before the Islamic revolution in 1979. It has always been a minority religion relative to the majority state religions (Zoroastrianism before the Islamic conquest, Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages and Shia Islam in modern times), though it had a much larger representation in the past than it does today.
Iranian mourners attend the funeral procession of military commander Qassem Soleimani in Tehran on January 6. The church had been there for hundreds of years. But when it comes, it will create a tsunami of disaster and a tsunami of opportunities. The findings confirm what many missions agencies and ministries have reported over the past decade.
converts and house churches – and are determined to stem this.’, The Release partner believes
Christians disengaged from mainstream society and withdrew into ethnic ghettos (mostly Assyrian- Aramaic- and Armenian-speaking).
His brother, Sam, founded Elam Ministries, and his nephew, David, now leads that outreach to Iran. If Iranian Christians get involved in governance, how will they protect themselves from the corruption so endemic to it? In the early 20th century, once again Iran's stable and extant Christian population was boosted - this time due to the effects of the Assyrian Genocide (1914-1924) and the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923), as many tens of thousands of refugees poured in. leaders overseas. Both churches now have much smaller memberships in Iran than the Armenian Apostolic Church. Long before Raphael Warnock’s Senate run, the biblical call for freedom for the oppressed stirred Atlanta Christians to social action. One-point
The Joshua Project, a research project highlighting unreached people groups worldwide, has claimed that 1.6% of Iranian citizens are Christian, with a 19.6% annual growth rate among evangelical churches.