Source: www.worthynews.com
Date: August 15, 2024
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – US Christian ministry leaders believe a revival is taking place in the Islamic Middle East, with more than one million leaving Islam for Christianity in Iran alone, CBN News reports.
In a statement to CBN News, Todd Nettleton of The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) said Iranians oppressed by the Ayatollah’s Islamic extremist regime for over 40 years are disillusioned with Islam.
“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. 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 said.
The Iranian church has been forced underground, with the government cracking down hard on expressions of Christian worship – but Nettleton added that at least one million Muslim Iranians have reportedly turned to Christ.
Referencing what is taking place in Iran, Don Shenk, executive director of The Tide Ministry told CBN News: “I think what’s happening there is actually representative of what’s happening in the Islamic world. 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. And I think there’s an awakening that is taking place across the Muslim world, not just in Iran.”
Meanwhile, the Joshua Project ministry has reported that the number of people coming to faith in Christ in Yemen is nearly double the global average, CBN News reports.
“It’s a move of God’s Spirit bringing change that may eventually transform not only Iran but the entire Middle East,” Nettleton concluded.