Terry Mattingly has some shocking information (if true) about the icon of the ongoing Iranian unrest.
Was Neda a Christian?
Monday July 6, 2009
Categories: Christianity (general), Iran
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I have not read anything suggesting she was shot BECAUSE she was a Christian, unless you are talking about comment-page junk.
Just FYI
She could just as easily have been a member of the Bah'ai faith, which borrows religious customs and symbols from all of the Abrahamic faiths, plus some Zoroastrianism if I remember correctly.
I'm a former Baha'i (now Orthodox Christian) and I can tell you that Baha'is do not normally wear crosses or other non-Baha'i religious symbols, except with other symbols in the context of promoting the idea of the unity of all religions.
Larry Anderson, thanks for that. I knew a couple of people of the Baha'i faith in Iraq. They were interpreters. All I know of the faith comes from a few conversations with one woman at the 4 AM call to prayer over Baghdad (a beautiful experience.)
Actually there is a very old Christian presence in Iran. The first people to recognize Jesus as divine were the Magi (i.e. Persians) and according to some early authorities they helped set up what became Iran's first Christian community (aided by St. Thomas the Apostle on his way to India). Apparently there are about 300,000 Christians in the country today, mostly Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans.
Supposedly the True Cross once (briefly) resided in Persia after the Persians sacked Jerusalem in the early 7th century- it was later recovered by the Byzantines.
Find out more and pray for the thriving underground church in Iran at www.iran30.org. A free prayer book is also available.
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