In 2009, two young Iranian women were sentenced to death by hanging for one reason: they had become Christians, and they refused to deny it.
Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Maryam Rostampour were born into Muslim families in Iran. After converting, they studied theology and returned home with a simple plan. Under cover of night, they put New Testaments into mailboxes across Tehran and other cities.
In less than three years they distributed about 20,000 Bibles and helped start secret house churches, mostly among women and young people.
Sharing the Christian faith is treated as a crime in Iran. Converts from Islam are not recognized as Christians. Only people born into recognized Christian minorities, such as Armenians and Assyrians, are officially allowed to practice.
Someone reported them. In March 2009 the IRGC arrested them. Officers asked if they were Christians. They said yes. Bibles were found in their apartment. They were charged with apostasy and promoting Christianity, and a judge sentenced them to death by hanging unless they returned to Islam.
They spent 259 days in Evin Prison in Tehran, a place known for torture and executions. They were interrogated for hours, threatened with hanging, and held in brutal conditions. They say they kept sharing their faith with other prisoners.
They did not know that Christians outside Iran had started a campaign for their release. Amnesty International and church groups pressed the case.
Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to the Iranian government calling for them to
be freed. After nine months, the regime released them. They later left Iran.
Their account is told in the book
‘Captive in Iran’.
The poster is right about the 20,000 Bibles and the death sentence. It leaves out that there were two of them, and that they survived. The regime tried to silence them. It failed.
Iran still jails Christian converts for house-church meetings, prayer, baptism, and possessing Bibles, often under "national security" charges.
The law has not changed.
It’s time for President Trump to understand this is the only person capable of the press secretary job
Make press briefings great again. Beth Dutton For press secretary.
🚨SPOT ON: Elon Musk summed up Charlie Kirk in one line, and it still hits just as hard.
"He was killed because his words made a difference. He was showing people the light, and he was killed by the dark."
Charlie never needed a weapon. He had a microphone, a folding table, and the courage to debate anyone who walked up.
That's what scared them.
They thought silencing him would end it.
Instead, millions more picked up where he left off.
The light is still winning.
JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE. 🇺🇸
Like Obama said.. he wanted to fundamentally change America. They want to turn this into a Muslim country. Islam to take over the world.
Make sure you #VoteRed
Thoughts & prayers for @siobhan1437154 Whyte, whose daughter Rhiannon was died 2 years ago to this day, murdered by Sudanese asylum seeker Deng Majek at Bescot Stadium railway station.
Tonight at 8pm Siobhan, @andrejpwalker & I reflect on the loss of a wonderful person.
Link below 🔽🔽🔽🔽
Ilhan Omar raided and under criminal investigation.
L. Louise Lucas arrested and charged.
Two senior FBI deep state subversives arrested.
A long-standing marriage fraud operation dismantled in Massachusetts.
Democrat Houston Tax Collector and staff arrested and charged with fraud.
Fifteen people arrested and charged in LA for $2 billion healthcare fraud.
All of this in the past week.
Ignore the doomers who say nothing ever happens. They’ll never be happy, and just need an excuse to complain.
On a train in Italy you don't pray on the floor in the middle of people. That's not prayer, it's a show of force. Everyone is free to believe what they want, but public space must be respected. Enough with fanaticism.
🚨BREAKING: ICE just went into a Boston courtroom and arrested an illegal migrant during their trial after The City of Boston refused to cooperate with ICE
Tom Homan ordered his men to capture the migrant before the migrant’s trial finished and is sending him back to his country
Ilhan Omar just voted.
Recent evidence indicates that she likely unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.
If this is proven true, she should be charged with Voter Fraud in addition to Immigration Fraud, and be removed from Congress then Deported.
Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.
The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.
Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.
Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.
Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.
The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.
Thanks to @TheJusticeDept@FBIKansasCity and @USAttyPirro.
-DKP🇺🇸
Enes Kanter Freedom just exposed LeBron James!
He offered to buy LeBron a FIRST CLASS ticket to Iran, North Korea, or Cuba to see if he’d disrespect THEIR flags.
LeBron got rich off American freedom while staying silent on China. Enes fled REAL tyranny.
Love this country or leave it! 🇺🇸
15 year old black boy beat the crap out of a 9 year old white girl on the bus and all he originally received was a stern warning.
So much for “white privilege”
Bill Barr hid the laptop from hell before the 2020 election in an effort to help Joe Biden steal the election!
When is he going to be brought to justice?
I believe I have found many different photos of the Abdul supporting socialist who said I should be killed for being a capitalist.
He goes to Wayne State University and his name *might be* Jackson. Help me identify.