Author: Shalem John

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Isten , you priests, to this warning from the Lord of L Hosts: “If you don’t change your ways and give glory to My Name, then I will send terrible punishment upon you, and instead of giving you blessings as I would like to, I will turn on you with curses. Indeed, I have cursed you already because you haven’t taken seriously the things that are most important to Me. 3 Take note that I will rebuke your children and I will spread on your faces the manure of these animals you offer Me, and throw you out like…

Mansour Khajehpour and his wife, Nahid Sepehri, understand what is at stake in the ongoing Iranian protests. They remember the 12 days they spent in a Tehran prison for their faith two decades ago.  In the ’90s, the Islamic regime launched a wave of intense persecution directed primarily against Christians involved in evangelism and church ministries. One of Khajehpour and Sepehri’s Iranian Christian friends received death threats before he was found dead. Authorities arrested the couple, leaders at a Presbyterian church in Tehran, in 1996. After the courts released them on bail, Khajehpour fled the country. His wife and young…