Iranians, Americans worship in a united kingdom
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND — “What if the regime wasn’t there? What if we were still in Iran?” The questions seem to hang in the air, creating…
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Is there a Church of Christ in Iran? There was, once
Officially, fewer than 150,000 of Iran’s 93 million people claim Christianity as their faith, most of them from Armenian and Assyrian backgrounds, according to a…
Iranians serve Ukrainians
POYSDORF, AUSTRIA — Bags stuffed with candy. Foil-wrapped crepes filled with chicken salad. Children’s Bibles full of colorful illustrations. Members of a Church of Christ…
Prisoners of hope
The scene was absolutely surreal. Iranian refugees cheered and sang, one of them waving an Israeli flag. Another stood atop a delivery truck, unleashing canisters…
Bibles for Iran? Be ready, ministry urges Christians
Missionaries in Vienna, Austria, launched Eastern European Mission in 1961 to smuggle Bibles in all the languages of the Soviet World — Hungarian, Romanian, Polish…
No fuel? No food? Amid crisis in Cuba, there’s no shortage of faith
MATANZAS, CUBA — René Sánchez Blanco sailed eight hours on a ferry from the Isle of Youth to Cuba’s mainland and then spent five hours…
Faith sustains Cuban farmer during time of crisis
LIMONAR, CUBA — It’s a tough time for Christian farmer Jorge Sánchez. A U.S. blockade on oil shipments to this Caribbean island nation has spurred…
What my Iranian Uber driver told me about Jesus
EDMOND, OKLA. — I arranged to meet my new friend Tony at a falafel place for lunch on Saturday. That morning, my home country attacked…
Iranian Christians cling to faith and hope as they witness attacks
Fear mixed with hope. That’s how Christians from the Middle Eastern nation of Iran described their feelings after a wave of attacks on their homeland…
Online, European churches reach souls in Iran
Members of Churches of Christ in Central Europe have become a multinational, multi-continent congregation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The church in Prague, the…
