Charisma Exclusive Interview: God is Moving in Syria; What it's Like to be a Christian there

Aimee Herd : Sep 10, 2013
News Staff – CharismaNews.com

"We are now experiencing that this is the best spiritual time for Syria and other countries, like Egypt, because as much as their suffering is great, they are growing. We experience how refugees run away from their places because of the bombing from the government. They came to Damascus and to the churches, and they came to find the truth of the real God." -a Syrian Christian

(Syria)—An exclusive interview with a Syrian Christian by Charisma News brings valuable insight into what Believers there are facing on a daily basis, and how the Body of Christ can be interceding for these faithful.

The interview also highlights some of what the Holy Spirit seems to be doing amid all of the violence and persecution, reminding me of the verse from Zephaniah 3:17:

"The LORD your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."

Below is an excerpt from the interview with a Christian calling herself Jane (name changed for her protection), read the full article by clicking Here.

Many of the Muslim families came to our church, and now our church has 2,000 families of refugees. They told us, "We don't know if this [the terrorism] is the real Islam." We said, "Yes, this is Islam. This is what they teach in Quran." They said, "We don't want to follow Muhammad anymore. We don't want Islam. We want to know the real God." So we give them New Testaments, and we follow up with them, have meetings, preach the gospel, and then we give them food. Thank God, we saw how He is moving among those families that before we couldn't reach because they don't even know there are Christians in this country. They are covered; it's very hard. So we thank God, because everything happens because of His goodness.

…we have one prayer a day for the country for six months, inviting people from any denomination—Muslim denominations and Christian denominations—and we pray with them for the country. And when we pray, we pray for Sunni and Shia and Christians and Jews and enemy religions. We pray for all denominations, and we pray for all people. That prayer meeting, God opened from this prayer to make resolutions among Sunni and Shia.