WWW.FREEFARSHID.ORG/ELAM A Jailed Iranian Pastor's Christmas Prayer
by Miles Windson
Wall Street Journal
Iranian Pastor Farshid Fathi Celebrates Forth Christmas in Prison
by Russ Jones
Christian Headlines
"...For the past few years, I have been advocating on behalf of Pastor Fathi and other Iranian Christians in Westminster and before the regime’s representatives. Though his case angers me and calls me to action, I am more often impressed and encouraged by the pastor’s fortitude, faith and indomitable spirit as they are reflected in his letters to supporters from prison.
"His latest contains a powerful Christmas message: “Although the beauty of Christmas or the signs of Christmas cannot be found in this prison,” the pastor writes, “with the ears of faith I can hear the everlasting and beautiful truth that: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel.’”
"It is signed “your captive brother who is free in Christ.'”
"His latest contains a powerful Christmas message: “Although the beauty of Christmas or the signs of Christmas cannot be found in this prison,” the pastor writes, “with the ears of faith I can hear the everlasting and beautiful truth that: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel.’”
"It is signed “your captive brother who is free in Christ.'”
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