This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A new testimony has surfaced confirming what reports have documented over recent months and years: That Christianity is alive and well inside Iran, now run by the extreme Islamic regime that took over by force nearly 50 years ago.
Even by some descriptions thriving.
A report at Not the Bee explains the testimony comes from Ramin Parsa, born in Iran in 1986, who has experienced being kidnapped by Islamic morality police and tortured.
He had been taught to hate.
"In the school, everything was Islamic. In our textbooks, we had the caricatures of Israeli soldiers killing these Palestinian babies. And the babies crying… it was not real but they wanted to sow the seed of hatred in our hearts toward the Jews and Israel," the report said he explained.
At one point, he came upon a gospel message on a Christian television station. He paid attention.
Ultimately, he prayed, "Jesus, if this is true, if you are truly the son of God, if you died for me on the cross – if you rose from the dead – I ask you to come into my life, show me. I want you to show me. I want you to prove it to me."
That moment, "Heat went through my hand. It went through all of my body. I started shaking and I started crying. I felt a love I had never felt before. I felt a peace I had never felt before. I felt as if a 500-lb weight was lifted off of my shoulders. I began to feel love, even for the people who beat me and tortured me."
He now works with, among other projects, a ministry helping those in Israel targeted by Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7.
Not the Bee noted it's not the first word that Christianity is moving across Iran.
