Thread: Please pray for two courageous sisters

From Elam Ministries:

Maryam and Marzieh have now been in prison in Tehran because of their faith for over six months and their health is deteriorating. This is the most urgent matter for prayer - that the Lord heals them directly and miraculously for the glory of His name and their encouragement.

Both women are suffering from sore throats, irregular painful stomach aches and often intense head aches. Both have lost much weight during their ordeal, because of their sickness and lack of nutrition. Marzieh's tooth infection is only being treated by painkillers and if the infection spreads it could become critical.

Due to overcrowding in the prison and the limited facilities, they have not received adequate treatment. There are also many other sick inmates and so there is a constant risk of picking up other viruses.

Regarding their case, the judge has said that they are 'not cooperating' meaning Maryam and Marzieh would not deny Christ but were faithful witnesses. The implication of his remark is that they continue to stay in prison. This is the normal punishment for female apostates: they are kept imprisoned until they recant. Please pray for this judge that he is either removed from the case or that he orders their release.

You can also write to them.

I pray that no matter what Happens God is Glorified.

Be it they stay in Prison as Paul did, and be willing to suffer in such a way for our Lord and Savior, and that others will be encouraged by their steadfast faith--unwilling to recant or deny our Lord.

May God sustain them and be their strength during this time..

And may they be a witness to the judge and others who are watching how they act and react to what they are enduring.

May they stand and sing praises to God even in the midst of this trial..and if it be to God's glory they be released, may God bring it to pass.

An Iranian prison is a horrible place for anyone to be in, much less a couple of young women. Rape is often used as an ""interrorgation tool"" on both sexes. The nominally Christian West should make Religious Freedom a prerequisite for nomalization of relations with this islamic tyranny.