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Dr. Mike Ansari is the President of Heart 4 Iran<\/a>, which partners with multiple Christian ministries to reach Iranian people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. He\u2019ll explain what the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as the new president of Iran means for persecuted Christians and religious freedom.<\/p>\n

One of the greatest needs of the church in Iran is Bibles. Mike will tell how VOM is helping meet that need\u2014and thank our listeners for giving to deliver Bibles into Iran. He\u2019ll also talk about the benefits of delivering Bibles in digital form\u2014which are much easier to hide and also to share with friends.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll learn about the need to train leaders for Iran\u2019s growing church\u2014and how Heart 4 Iran is encouraging new believers to share Christ and even plant their own house churches.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dr. Mike will equip us to pray for the nation of Iran and our Christian family members there.<\/p>\n

Learn more about delivering Bibles into Iran in this VOM Radio conversation with Joe and Dawn<\/a>. Never miss an episode of VOM Radio! Subscribe to the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to this episode on VOMRadio.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Learn more about delivering Bibles into Iran in this VOM Radio conversation with Joe and Dawn. Never miss an episode of VOM Radio! Subscribe to the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vom-radio","tag-iran","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\nIRAN: New President, More Persecution - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/iran-new-president-more-persecution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IRAN: New President, More Persecution - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Mike Ansari is the President of Heart 4 Iran, which partners with multiple Christian ministries to reach Iranian people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 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