Source: Mission Network News, June 19, 2020<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s latest legal changes target virtual churches and online ministries. According to Article18<\/a>, new amendments to an existing law expand Iranian authorities\u2019 ability to persecute religious minorities.<\/p>\n \u201cIran\u2019s latest legislative amendment appears to be, in part, a response to internal uprising and political unrest across the country,\u201d says Mike Ansari of Heart4Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cFor a long time, Iran has waged war on its minority population and blamed them for its misfortune. Many feel this is a desperate power-act by Iran to secure its longevity and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a spiritual revolution is underway in the Islamic republic. \u201cIn the last three months, our call center at Mohabat TV has registered an all-time high of 3,000+ monthly decisions of faith from Iranian Muslims who are converting to Christianity,\u201d Ansari says. \u201cThis ten-fold increase, compared to the same period in 2019, is a major indication that the Islamic Republic of Iran is losing a cross-section of its Muslim population to Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Another story from Mission Network News shares good news from Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, June 19, 2020 Iran\u2019s latest legal changes target virtual churches and online ministries. According to Article18, new amendments to an existing law expand Iranian authorities\u2019 ability to persecute religious minorities. \u201cIran\u2019s latest legislative amendment appears to be, in part, a response to internal uprising and political unrest across the country,\u201d says … Continue reading IRAN: Virtual Church Faces New Opposition<\/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-9415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415","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=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}