{"id":2603115,"date":"2026-05-15T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-christians-take-advantage-of-middle-east-war-to-proclaim-the-gospel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:16:37","slug":"iranian-christians-take-advantage-of-middle-east-war-to-proclaim-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-christians-take-advantage-of-middle-east-war-to-proclaim-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Christians Take Advantage of Middle East War to Proclaim the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanian-christians-take-advantage-of-middle-east-war-to-proclaim-the-gospel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2603115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt claims that Iran\u2019s underground Christian church has been able to make progress despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-republican-club-speakers-call-for-dismantling-jewish-state-and-deny-hamas-atrocities\/\" title=\"National Republican Club speakers advocate for the dismantling of the Jewish state and deny Hamas atrocities\">long-standing persecution<\/a>. It argues that,amid a new tense period involving the U.S. and Israel, Iranian authorities might potentially be focusing less on suppressing house churches-allowing Bible distribution and gospel conversations to increase. It cites Voice of the Martyrs officials saying churches and Christians have been communicating in smaller, one-on-one settings (like caf\u00e9s or homes) and that thousands of Bibles have been distributed since the conflict began.<\/p>\n<p>the passage also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-oversight-panel-to-focus-first-hearing-on-fraud-and-waste-in-covid-relief-programs\/\" title=\"Comer Oversight Panel to Focus First Hearing on Fraud and Waste in COVID Relief Programs\">describes reports<\/a> of Christians responding to forced displacement by forming a \u201cchurch camp\u201d for worship, Bible study, and mutual encouragement. It further references other Christian organizations claiming rapid growth in Iran\u2019s Christian population,estimating that more then a million people profess Christ while many remain secret believers. it presents war-related pressure as inadvertently creating opportunities for evangelism, discipleship, leadership training, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches\/\" title=\"How The Federal Government Used Evangelical Leaders To Spread Covid Propaganda To ...\">church planting<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Iran is widely known to have a growing underground church that has long been a target for persecution.<\/p>\n<p>But as the Islamic nation\u2019s regime struggles to outlast a new war with the United States and Israel, less energy is being devoted to oppressing Christians, opening opportunities for them to advance the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Nettleton, vice president of Voice of the Martyrs, said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/iranian-christians-using-time-of-war-to--the-gospel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with The Christian Post that \u201cwith the Iranian government and the authorities there paying attention to the war, they\u2019re not paying as much attention to house churches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are therefore not \u201cpaying as much attention to keeping Bibles out of the country or from being distributed within the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voice of the Martyrs staff members have less ability to enter the country, but they have distributed several thousand Bibles within Iran since the conflict started.<\/p>\n<p>Nettleton discussed a group of underground Christians who were forced to flee their city, but stuck together as they sought safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey turned it into a church camp,\u201d Nettleton described.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey spent time out of town, studying God\u2019s Word, worshiping together, encouraging each other, and really growing as a body of believers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nettleton said leaders of the group told him \u201cthey are proactively talking to people about Jesus in a time when everything is in chaos, in a time when people are dying, and so people are thinking about eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many fellow Iranians are indeed thinking afresh about their own mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Christians were already used to communication restrictions when the rest of the country had their internet access blocked by the Iranian government to discourage demonstrations earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that sense, I guess the believers and other Iranians were used to or prepared for that,\u201d Nettleton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of that, many of these conversations are happening in one-on-one contexts in caf\u00e9s or in a home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other reports likewise confirm rapid growth in the Iranian church, even amid the difficulties wrought by the war.<\/p>\n<p>ByFaith Magazine, the news outlet of the Presbyterian Church in America, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/the-state-of-the-church-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invited<\/a> experts on Iran to  their insights, learning that the gospel of Jesus Christ is indeed advancing in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Tat Stewart, who works with the missions agency of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, is a second-generation missionary to Iran who confirmed that \u201cwe have the fastest-growing church in the world in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday it is estimated that over a million people profess Christ, and we have no idea of how many people are secret Christians,\u201d Stewart commented, noting that only 3,000 Protestant Christians were known to live in Iran during the 1979 Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod uses difficulty, struggle, and trial to advance the gospel, and we should praise him that which was intended for evil, God has been using for good, and for the blessing of the people of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamid Hatami, a PCA teaching elder who founded Middle East Reformed Heritage Ministries, sent a newsletter to supporters in March saying that \u201cthis may become a season of evangelism, discipleship, leadership training, and church planting on a scale that has not been possible for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis also means that the church must not stand at a distance. 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