today on christian world news, they spent months in an iranian prison. we ll tell you how these two christian women ser vised survived that ordeal and spreading the message of hope. wendy: this home-schooled family fled germany and why does the united states deny them asylum. and a new book that explains the mysteries of the islamic faith and how to minister to muslims. wendy: inside iran s worst prison, two christian women describe their experience in evan. hello, everyone, i m wendy griffith. george: and i m george thomas. cbn news has been following the story of saeed abedini, the iranian american pastor serving an eight-year sentence for his christian faith. he is being held in the evan prison, where he is suffering physical beatings and is denied medical care. wendy: mariam and her roommate spent seven months there. recently they shared their experience and rare inside look at what it is like inside that infamous prison. their story begins with a knock on
thomas. cbn news has been following the story of saeed abedini, the iranian american pastor serving an eight-year sentence for his christian faith. he is being held in the evan prison, where he is suffering physical beatings and is denied medical care. wendy: mariam and her roommate spent seven months there. recently they shared their experience and rare inside look at what it is like inside that infamous prison. their story begins with a knock on their door. take us back to march 2009, when your doorbell rang. what happened? i looked through to the people, and i saw three guards. my mind was in shock. i just opened the door, and they entered our apartment. they ransacked everywhere, and they took both of us, with all of our belongings, like bibles, books, jesus movies, and everything that they had discovered in our apartment, and they transferred us to the security police. for our first day, and the first week was so difficult for both of us because we were so scared.
the country has suffered a deadly wave of attacks from a radical muslim group. millions of christians are seeking refuge from the vie vennes. could africa s most populous country be breaking apart? nigeria s president says the violence is worse than the 1960s civil war. describing it as an unprecedented evil. there was a bombing and death toll could rise to 250. i saw a dead body. 11 more bombed. boko haram is fighting for islamic sharia law including punishments like stoning and beheadings. president johnathon good luck who is a christian from the south has vowed to crush the group ordering thousands of roadblocks and stepped up security. we are taking measures. it has done little to stop the violence. key elements maybe sympathetic to the militants and growing concern boko haram may try to spark a civil war with the goal of splitting majority muslim north away from the christian south. some three million people, mostly christians are trying to flee the violence in
and i am george thomas. the country has suffered a deadly wave of attacks from a radical muslim group. millions of christians are seeking refuge from the vie vennes. could africa s most populous country be breaking apart? nigeria s president says the violence is worse than the 1960s civil war. describing it as an unprecedented evil. there was a bombing and death toll could rise to 250. i saw a dead body. 11 more bombed. boko haram is fighting for islamic sharia law including punishments like stoning and beheadings. president johnathon good luck who is a christian from the south has vowed to crush the group ordering thousands of roadblocks and stepped up security. we are taking measures. it has done little to stop the violence. key elements maybe sympathetic to the militants and growing concern boko haram may try to spark a civil war with the goal of splitting majority muslim north away from the christian south. some three million people, mostly christians are tryi
reminds many across the globe that the disease is one of the top killers. that is especially true in developing countries, in africa, 5.7 million are infected with hiv. christian international are fighting back to meet needs. virginia joins us by skype, regina, thanks for being with us. it is my pleasure to be here. your organization is ministering in ten different countries. what are the biggest obstacles in fighting aids? our organization is a long-term child development agency. we work primarily through the local church and communities where the children are. so what we have to do is try to identify the children through our registered beneficiaries and encourage them to overcome the fear, fare of stigma to be tested. we encourage all of our children and their care givers to be tested if at all possible. we make arrangements for testing to happen. once they are identified, if they are found to be hiv positive, we help them obtain the next treatment they need. as a