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They’ll seize your Bible, throw you into prison, tear down your church, and maybe kill you–and yet Iran has the fastest-growing Christian community in the world today (https://churchleaders.com/news/288330-story-irans-church-two-sentences-mark-howard-the-gospel-coalition.html?fbclid=IwAR0-1KM_hnSACWu1SACPTxF17Aje8U-O1Qn14af476K-4QlJWfpNJzIZElw), according to Churchleaders.com.

And that’s not all. The country with the second-fastest Christian growth is Afghanistan.

Why is this happening? Two chief reasons are mentioned: the Iranian people have grown increasingly disgusted with their Islamist government’s addiction to violence and cruelty; and grass-roots evangelism has been very effective in Iran. If you subscribe to The Voice of the Martyrs, you already know that.

In fact, Christianity in Iran has grown more in the last 20 years than in the previous 13 centuries put together.

I am sure that God remembers that it was Cyrus the Persian, in obedience to His will, who freed God’s people from captivity in Babylon and commanded that God’s Temple be rebuilt.

Now, maybe, it’s time for the people of Iran to be set free.

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Europe’s neglected churches are being filled again–by new Christians who have converted out of Islam, according to a recent report by Fox News ( http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/21/muslim-converts-breathe-new-life-into-europe-s-struggling-christian-churches.html ).

This is exceedingly good news–but is it true? You know Muslim authorities aren’t going to talk about it: ditto secular humanist noozies who are embarrassed by religion in general and Christianity in particular.

In recent years organizations like Voice of the Martyrs have reported more and more conversions to Christianity inside Muslim countries, where to do so usually means persecution or even death. Anyone who leaves Islam is considered fair game to be killed.

Nevertheless, they leave. And in what numbers, and for how long, and with what effect–well, who knows?

So is it true? Behind all the grim stories of rape and violence, does the Muslim invasion of the West have a key element that hardly anyone has noticed? Is God using this to advance the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ?

It just might be, you know. It just might be. He does love to work in unexpected ways.

And if the stories are true, our family in Christ is getting bigger–and we have some fatted calves to kill.