Captive in Iran – Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh

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From the blurb:

“Maryam Rostampour & 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 arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are swift and sudden. In the face of ruthless interrogations and risking a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the radical – and dangerous – step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them.
In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to shine His light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything and showing love to those in despair.”

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From the book:

“Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh were born into Muslim families in Iran – Maryam in the city of Kermanshah, and Marziyeh in Rafsanjan. They met while studying Christian theology in Turkey in 2005, and realized they had become Christians at about the same time six years earlier. Deciding to join forces, they returned to Iran and began a program of mission outreach. Over the next years, they handed out twenty thousand New Testaments in Tehran and other cities. They started two house churches in their apartment, one for young people and another for prostitutes. They extended their ministry with mission trips to India, South Korea, and Turkey […]”