Source: Back to Jerusalem, April 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abdull was born the grandson of an Ayatollah in Iran and sent to a radical madrassa as a young boy. When he was only a teenager, he joined a secret elite Islamic unit and was sent on a mission of jihad, where he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was venerated as a martyr of Islam, but then something amazing happened. A few days after Abdull\u2019s body was placed in a morgue, he came back to life! What happened next changed Abdull\u2019s view of Islam forever. His shocking transformation led him on a journey of grace, love, forgiveness and, most importantly, truth. What he discovered sent the religious leaders of Iran into a fury, eventually landing him on death row in an Iranian prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/a>. This story is also told in the 2024 book Jihad: The Day I Died<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christians in Iran were sentenced to a combined total of over 250 years in prison in 2024, a sixfold increase over the year before, says the advocacy group Article 18. Read The Tip of the Iceberg<\/a>, their annual report documenting human rights violations against Christians in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Back to Jerusalem, April 1, 2025 Abdull was born the grandson of an Ayatollah in Iran and sent to a radical madrassa as a young boy. When he was only a teenager, he joined a secret elite Islamic unit and was sent on a mission of jihad, where he died. He was venerated as … Continue reading Iran: The Jihadist Died and Came Back to Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13756,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions\/13756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}