{"id":4433,"date":"2023-03-24T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/illegal-bibles-change-lives-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:07:03","slug":"illegal-bibles-change-lives-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/illegal-bibles-change-lives-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Bibles Change Lives in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owning, printing, importing or distributing Bibles in Iran is illegal. Since they are so difficult to obtain, Bibles are treasured by Iranian believers, and few have their own copy of God&rsquo;s Word. Despite the prohibitions and scarcity, Christians in Iran are working on placing copies of God&rsquo;s Word into people&rsquo;s hands. When they receive a shipment of Bibles, our Iranian brothers and sisters hand-deliver the Bibles to strangers. They knock on the doors of people they don&rsquo;t know and give Bibles to anyone who will accept the gift, sometimes placing the Bibles in mailboxes. Front-line workers have shared numerous stories of Iranian Muslims who read the Bible for the first time after unexpectedly receiving one in their mailbox and later became followers of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/iran\/?_source_code=WBPGGPG20B\">Click here <\/a>to find out about Christian persecution in Iran and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2485\/those-receiving-bibles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post a prayer for those receiving Bibles on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning, printing, importing or distributing Bibles in Iran is illegal. Since they are so difficult to obtain, Bibles are treasured by Iranian believers, and few have their own copy of God&#8217;s Word. 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