According to the faith-based outlet CBN News, “an unprecedented number of Muslims are choosing to follow Christ” in a country that is predominantly Muslim.
“You have a country with one of the highest drug addiction rates in the world. You have a country where corruption runs rampant. You have a country where more than half the people live below the poverty line,” Todd Nettleton of The Voice of the Martyrs, an organization focused around providing support for persecuted Christians, told CBN.
“And the people of Iran are looking at this and they are saying, ‘Wait a minute. If this is what Islam has brought us in the last 45 years, we’re not interested. We want to know what the other options are.’”
Nettleton claims that over a million Muslims had left the faith for Christianity and two-thirds of the country’s 75,000 mosques had closed.
“This is not something that is making the regime happy. And, really, in many ways, they are seeking to solidify their power and to crush any kind of dissent,” Nettleton said.
“We have heard multiple stories this year of Bible study, a home church being raided. Everyone there is photographed; everyone there is questioned. But then the leader of the meeting is held on to. They are arrested. They are detained. They’re put in prison.”
Don Shenk, executive director of The Tide Ministry, said the phenomenon is a result of what is happening is the Islamic faith.
“We get responses from listeners who say, you know, now I understand that God loves me. I always thought that God wanted to punish me,” Shenk explained. “And I think there’s an awakening that is taking place across the Muslim world, not just in Iran.”
Source: ‘Jesus Revolution’ Breaks Out in Iran, Mosques Close as Muslims Accept Christ as Savior