My sympathies to the bereaved Farsi-speaker.
Thanks. It is very sad. She was old, but he was unable to go -- his passport expired a while back. It would take a while to renew it. So he's doubly heartbroken.
It may be the best for his safety; he is openly critical of the current government and a while back was caught smuggling a suitcase full of Bibles into the country -- you can imagine they didn't take kindly to that.
But he needed friends, Christian friends, around him.