{"id":6926,"date":"2021-12-28T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2021-12-28T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:24:54","slug":"making-bibles-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/making-bibles-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Bibles Behind Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Story from the\u00a0One Year Pray for the Persecuted Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

As Pastor Houmayoun led a prayer meeting at his home in Shiraz, Iran, secret police stormed in and arrested him, his wife, their seventeen-year-old son, and four other church leaders. After several days of interrogation, the Christians were moved to a prison and ordered to keep quiet about why they had been arrested; the guards didn\u2019t want their Christian faith to spread among the 6,000 prisoners.<\/p>\n

Refusing to be silenced by the guards\u2019 warning, the believers took the opportunity to share the gospel with fellow inmates. But they had one problem: They had no Bibles.<\/p>\n

Pastor Houmayoun and the other imprisoned Christians began writing down memorized Bible verses on any paper they could find. And later, they asked family members and friends to send them chapters of Scripture written in English as \u201cletters\u201d to be carried into the prison by a local imam who visited regularly.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Christians inside the prison then translated the Scripture into Farsi.<\/p>\n

After several months, they had complete handwritten copies of some books of the Bible. They continued to make additional copies as they read and shared the ones they already had. \u201cSome of the copies went to other prisons,\u201d Houmayoun recalled, \u201cbecause sometimes when a prisoner was transferring to another prison he would take copies with him. They also would make copies, and like that, the New Testaments were spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Bibles were highly restricted outside the prison, inside they were multiplying.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the\u00a0One Year Pray for the Persecuted Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about out partners The Voice of the Martyrs\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Story from the\u00a0One Year Pray for the Persecuted Bible As Pastor Houmayoun led a prayer meeting at his home in Shiraz, Iran, secret police stormed in and arrested him, his wife, their seventeen-year-old son, and four other church leaders. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4,15,55],"tags":[360,361],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6934,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}