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Posted on 06/11/2026 12:25:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A group of Iranian refugees are gathered in our living room in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Iranians are staying longer to have a Bible study in Farsi. Black tea is placed on the table with cookies and large dates. It is busier than ever. Iranians are eager to be together to share the latest news...
People are deeply worried and hopeful at the same time.
Mohamed Reza Behbudi is one of these, a new friend with whom I play rapid chess whenever we meet. He is a tough-looking man with incredibly kind eyes.
“In Iran, I was the king of the jungle,” he says..."I lost almost all my friends to violence, to drugs, to suicide, to the death penalty. And I had to flee the country and leave my family behind..."
Shima Sabghi helps people find jobs, rooms, or a doctor...and gives pastoral care. As I write this, she is preparing a bowl of rice with saffron for a church group. Sabghi’s own life has not been a bed of roses either.
"I am a woman from the East. Our lives as women there are marked by feelings of inferiority...My family was wealthy, and I had connections everywhere. But when I encountered corruption at work and got into trouble with the police, I had to flee..."
Reflecting on the situation in Iran, Shabanlari thinks that the experience of living under a repressive theocracy has created a new openness. “There is a broad movement of people who no longer want any religion at all. They are looking for a new identity.”
Some find it in atheism...Some turn to their old religion, Zoroastrianism. But others find it in Jesus...
What gives me hope is the second generation of Christians. The children of Iranian believers...they will reap the fruits...
(Excerpt) Read more at plough.com ...
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Well, one thing can be certainly not paying attention to the trolls on this site.
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What a thoughtful comment.
Send your own kids over there to die, chicken hawk.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. You can’t always sit it out , especially when you have an insane enemy who chants ‘Death To America’ and wants to get the nuclear weapons needed to do it.
Umm... Jesus?
👍+1
Wow-
Christians from Iran, in the Netherlands, doing their service in Farsi.
Can it get more jumbled up than this?
I pray they can stay strong in their faith and things go well for them.
Hope here meaning what gives them hope for Iran this side of eternity. 🗺️
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