{"id":544,"date":"2012-02-20T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2012-02-20T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:44:16","slug":"5-minute-challenge-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/5-minute-challenge-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Minute Challenge &#8211; Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic Persians are by definition Muslim, so ethnic Christian converts are considered apostates. Almost all Christian activity is illegal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from evangelism to Bible training to publishing Christian books.\u00c2\u00a0Many church services are monitored by the secret police. The governor of Tehran has criticized Christian evangelicalism as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccorrupt and deviant movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca cultural invasion of the enemy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. More than 200 Christians were arrested in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thank God that despite the regime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harsh treatment of Christians, the church is growing<\/li>\n<li>For strength for Muslim-background believers who have been arrested, jailed and beaten<\/li>\n<li>For justice and release for Christian prisoners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map-Iran.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"545\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/5-minute-challenge-iran\/map-iran\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map-Iran.gif\" data-orig-size=\"270,185\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"map-Iran\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map-Iran.gif\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map-Iran.gif\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-545\" title=\"map-Iran\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map-Iran.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic Persians are by definition Muslim, so ethnic Christian converts are considered apostates. Almost all Christian activity is illegal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from evangelism to Bible training to publishing Christian books.\u00c2\u00a0Many church services are monitored by the secret police. The governor of Tehran has criticized Christian evangelicalism as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccorrupt and deviant movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca cultural invasion &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/5-minute-challenge-iran\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-minutes","tag-ttw2015","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WWL2012.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-8M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}