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    Christian convert from Iran converting Muslims in Sweden


    Christian convert from Iran converting Muslims in Sweden
    By Hollie McKay
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01...in-sweden.html

    From escaping Iran through the mountains as a Muslim refugee, to surviving domestic abuse and imprisonment in a Turkish prison, to carving out a life in Sweden, Annahita Parsan's story is the stuff of a Hollywood movie.

    Parsan, a convert from Islam to Christianity and mother of two, has emerged as one of the most prominent religious figures in Europe, both because of her unlikely geographic and spiritual pilgrimage and her decision to reach out to Muslims with the gospel -- at great personal risk.

    "My life is completely different since coming to Jesus," said the 47-year-old Parsan, whose memoir, "Stranger No More: A Muslim Refugee Story of Harrowing Escape, Miraculous Rescue and the Quiet Call of Jesus," was published late last year.

    Parsan was raised in a Muslim home in the ancient Iranian province of Isfahan with her parents and four siblings, she told Fox News. She was married at 16, and just after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 she gave birth to a boy, Daniel. Iran quickly became a different place under the Ayatollah Khomeini.....



    ...It was in this tiny Scandinavian country where the seeds of her eventual spiritual transformation were planted.

    "In about the first or second month there, a woman came to the door to speak about God. But it was not in my interest," Parsan recalled. "I was so angry, I was so unhappy. But she came back the next day with a small Bible, so this time I asked Jesus to help me."...



    ...After five years of intense study Parson was ordained in 2012 as a minister in the Church of Sweden.

    The former refugee is now the leader of two congregations in Sweden. She not only evangelizes Muslims, but she frequently trains churches to reach out to Muslims and disciple them once they join the church.

    "I work specifically with the Muslim community, many are also Farsi speaking," Parsan said. "Sometimes they come to the church because they are curious. Sometimes they are asylum seekers and sometimes they are just visiting from places like Iran and Afghanistan, so they secretly get baptized and then they go back."

    She says she has been instrumental in the conversion of more than 1,500 people over the past five years.

    Because of her successes, Parsan faces risks other Church of Sweden ministers do not face.

    "I have serious threats at least a couple of times per year, a threat of a knife attack or a bomb attack. I have a police officer attached to my case I can always call, and we have security during our services. I have other threats from my own distant family members," she added. "But for me, what I do is worth it....





    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...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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