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By Maryam Rostampour-Keller on February 7, 2025 , ,

 An Iranian Christian's Remarkable Story with Maryam Rostampour-Keller

Despite Islamic law which forbids the sharing of Christian beliefs, two young Christian Iranian women chose to obey God instead.

Remarkably they distributed over 20,000 New Testaments, helped start two house churches, and when imprisoned in one of the world’s worst prisons and sentenced to death, continued to boldly share the Gospel.

Hear this amazing story of how God worked through these women and rescued them from the Iranian regime in this pre-recorded event.

We will also learn what God is doing in Iran today.

Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm ET
Speaker: Maryam Rostampour-Keller
Location: Virtual

Captive in Iran

A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran’s Brutal Evin Prison

Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches. In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace.

Learn more here.

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Maryam Rostampour-Keller

Author

Maryam Rostampour-Keller was born into a Muslim family in Iran. After becoming a Christian in her teens, she studied theology in Turkey. Her story of how Maryam and her friend, Marziyeh Amirizadehis, were imprisoned for their faith and sentenced to death in Iran is told in the book, Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran’s Brutal Evin Prison. Maryam has a B.S. and M.S. in International Affairs from Georgia Institute of Technology.

 

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