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    Underground Church movement grows in Iran despite regime's efforts


    Underground Church movement grows in Iran despite regime's efforts
    By Perry Chiaramonte Published November 28, 2016
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11...s-efforts.html

    Despite the Iranian regime’s best efforts to stop the spread of Christianity, a large underground church movement is growing.

    Hundreds of Iranian citizens have been converting to Christianity, and many are being baptized in large ceremonies in underground churches held in private homes across the country. This month, Christian ministry ELAM estimated that more than 200 Iranian and Afghans were secretly baptized in a service just across the Iranian border.

    “It’s an astronomical increase,” Mani Erfan, CEO and founder of CCM Ministries, which has been involved in Iran’s underground church movement for more than two decades, told FoxNews.com. “And it’s been predominately young people. We call it an awakening.”...



    ...Erfan adds that the evangelical movement began in the wake of 9/11 but has steadily increased in the past three to four years and that experts predict that by 2020, the Christian population in Iran will top 7 million -- or 10 percent of the total population.

    “That’s a paradigm shift,” he said. “It would change the dynamic of the country and the region.”...

    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
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    The Iranian Christians I interacted with in 2015 were all very young but they were in one of the most conservative areas, something comparable to the "Bible belt" though I haven't found a good definition for that.

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    Maybe we can start bombing and put an end to all that!

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    We have known about this for several years. Lots of things are happening we simply can not talk about as it would endanger too many people. God is moving in miraculous ways

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