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When I was in Iran I saw many young people wearing a cross. At first I thought it was just a fashion statement, but my brother-in-law told me that many, many people were converting to Christianity as a repudiation of the regime. And this is happening in a place where it is a capital offense to convert from Islam.

I pray for these brave, brave people. I love the Persian people. They are some of the lovliest people I have ever met and they have a rebellious streak in them (behind closed doors they are rowdy, sensuous and fun-loving). Let's pray that they will no longer have to live double lives and may soon have the freedom they so badly desire and deserve.

SusanTK, I quite concur and the wife and I have been praying for them also. But that they are converting... this is news indeed! Thank you.

(Check out the beautiful Iranian churches from the link on this page, courtesy of the Iran Chamber Society.)

I can tell you though - in all honesty, the future of Iranian Religion is likely to be one of aversion to Islam although many will still practice.. many will be NON-RELIGIOUS as is the case now and many could possibly go back to the way of Zoroastrianism.. many ZOroastrians will also move back to Iran likely once the mullahs are gone - then they won't be repressed.. Zoroastrianism predates Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- Actually the main relgiions of today got a lot of influence from Zoroastrianism..

Yes Eala, it is quite true. My sister-in-law has a good friend that I met while we were there. She took me aside and showed me a cruxifix that she had hidden in her purse. She asked me to say the Lord's Prayer in English and she said it in Farci. She said she had recently converted and that in all the major cities there were large underground Christian movements. They meet in each other's houses to study the Bible. This lady was so in love with the Lord. When she talked about Jesus her face was glowing. What is happening in Iran is something like the early Christians in Rome- secret, growing and unstoppable.

There is a political angle to this as well. Can you imagine how revolutionary Jesus' words must be to people whose young people are routinely flogged and where women are still stoned to death for adultery? As the Christian woman told me- "Jesus is love, islam is hate". Wow! The mullah's have done more to destroy the people's faith in the religion of their father's than hundred's of missionaries could ever have done.