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.”...