NEWS:

MUSLIMS TURNED CHRISTIAN ADVICES CHRISTIANS TO LOVE MUSLIMS

      A former Muslim said that Christians
must love Muslims in a speech at the
Ethics & Religious Liberty
Commission’s Leadership Summit.

     Afshin Ziafat was born in Houston, but
moved to Iran with his family at age
two. They returned to their country
four years later during the Iranian
Revolution.Reports have it that Afshin is now a Christian pastor, and
credits his former English tutor with
leading him to Christ.

    In the speech, Ziafat said, "Racial
reconciliation is not just a good idea
because racial equality is a politically
correct idea, but it's because the
message of the Gospel is at stake. The
name of Jesus is at stake. And so the
Gospel tells us that it's by grace alone
that we can be restored to God.”
Ziafat shared the hardships his family
faced for being an Iranian family in the
United States.
      He said, "It was not easy in 1979 to be
from Iran living in America. We had
rocks thrown at our window in Houston
because people knew our family was
from Iran. In high school, kids
threatened to beat up my brother and I;
my parents' car's tires were slashed."

     His Christian English tutor treated him
differently than other Americans, with
love and respect. She gave Ziafat his
first Bible and promised that one day
they would be able to read it together.
The pastor became a Christian 10 years
later.