Iran is widely known to have a growing underground church that has long been a target for persecution.
But as the Islamic nation’s regime struggles to outlast a new war with the United States and Israel, less energy is being devoted to oppressing Christians, opening opportunities for them to advance the gospel.
Todd Nettleton, vice president of Voice of the Martyrs, said in aninterviewwith The Christian Post that “with the Iranian government and the authorities there paying attention to the war, they’re not paying as much attention to house churches.”
They are therefore not “paying as much attention to keeping Bibles out of the country or from being distributed within the country.”
Voice of the Martyrs staff members have less ability to enter the country, but they have distributed several thousand Bibles within Iran since the conflict started.
Nettleton discussed a group of underground Christians who were forced to flee their city, but stuck together as they sought safety.
“They turned it into a church camp,” Nettleton described.
“They spent time out of town, studying God’s Word, worshiping together, encouraging each other, and really growing as a body of believers.”
Nettleton said leaders of the group told him “they are proactively talking to people about Jesus in a time when everything is in chaos, in a time when people are dying, and so people are thinking about eternity.”
Many fellow Iranians are indeed thinking afresh about their own mortality.
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