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    Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
    Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
    Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
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    Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison

    By Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Anne Graham Lotz

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    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. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and 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, two courageous Iranian women 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781414382203

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    • 5/5
      Off the chart, wonderful book—unbelievable faith and suffering—eye opening! Highly recommended!
    • 5/5
      Incredible story - incredible book. It is hard to image to go through something like them, and to be able to write it down in such a well-thought and elaborated form. Oh, how wonderful are the fruits of true Christian faith, in the midst of the worst - not only trouble, not only persecution, but imprisonment, gracefully without any torture. What an encouragement, to make the best out of the worst and to serve Christ powerfully in such an environment where others rightfully would have sunk into self-pity and resignation. They served others and stayed relatively strong, while doing this and distracting themselves from their own misery. Very powerful testimony.

      The book does not contain any errors, but one small but significant theological error, to consider the Vatican as part of Christianity, while in reality it is as evil as Islam, although the RCC believes more of the Bible than Islam.

      “Then why is the Vatican involved in your case? What’s going on?”
      “I have no idea. We’ve been in prison and have had no news of what’s going
      on in the outside world. However, it’s only natural for the Vatican to get involved
      with our case because we have been imprisoned on charges of being Christians
      and believing in Jesus.” (We never learned any more about the Vatican’s reported
      involvement.)
    • 5/5
      Such a poignant autobiography with so much insight! I could not put the book down. The stories retold are heartbreaking and triumphant. Highly recommended! A must read for all!
    • 5/5
      Excellent!!! Inspiring!!! It's good to read books like this so that we can learn about things going on other countries. It helps us to really appreciate the freedoms we have here in America, and reminds us of the importance to fight to make sure we never lose these freedoms!?

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      captivating from the beginning to the end

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