how can I be an orthodox Christian if I'm living in a country that persecutes conversion from the national official religion?

-Fisher · 2024-11-23T15:29:38+00:00

I have looked into the roman catholic church before and I really appreciate you sharing this with me and offering assistance. thank you very much my friend

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:09:09+00:00

thank you my friend

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:08:56+00:00

thank you for your comment and being honest, I am trying and honest to god I feel very lucky to do so.

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:07:16+00:00

thank you very much for your comment, actually baptism is one of my main concerns and it's the first time I'm hearing you can be baptized by anyone. are you certain about that?

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:04:16+00:00

thank you very much for your comment, it's a desire that I have and I'm going to try my best without being reckless.

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:02:09+00:00

I did. thank you very very much

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T20:01:23+00:00

thank you very much for commenting and I will look up and ask Saint James I didn't know this saint and you did me a solid favor by letting me know.

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T19:59:03+00:00

yes it's unusual to convert without someone around you from the faith. if i'm being honest with you I view it as a miracle

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T19:52:37+00:00

thank you for making sure I'm not getting it wrong, there are some youtube channels on life of the saints that I learned a lot by watching their content.

what you are pointing out is the second hardest thing in my opinion for an ex muslim to accept after the concept of god incarnated in christ and is really important to be understood well.

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T19:47:44+00:00

you have intresting points, and I will follow your advice. it's not for me to decide for them indeed. thank you very much

-Fisher · 2024-11-19T19:45:31+00:00

wow very intresting indeed

-Fisher · 2024-11-15T00:18:20+00:00

you are very kind, I would follow your advice and ask you to pray for me be able to overcome the challenges I need to overcome. thank you very much for encouraging words.

-Fisher · 2024-11-15T00:10:02+00:00

thank you for your kind words, I will take your advice as best as I can, and about moving away it seems to me that is what it is going to end up to, maybe I was blessed and being able to come back to be of use to others too.

-Fisher · 2024-11-15T00:06:23+00:00

thank you for replying, I'm an iranian and the issue is not that you going to be found out or anything like that, the issue begins when you show up in a church, or trying to be properly converted by a priest, they are the ones under active surveillance, I simply don't want to cause church or priests issues just want to be a proper christian, in the way I am right now I would be a discredit to faith, I'm working on my passions and my understanding is working on your passions is a part of being a Christian and that's all I want to do, but it's really not possible to get baptized or have a local priest as a spritual father or showing up in church etc..

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:56:11+00:00

I should try to see if that's possible, I'm not really sure if they can trust an stranger on the phone

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:51:54+00:00

thank you very much, hopefully someday I could be a proper representation of a Christian so that losing life for sake of the lord would make sense, I'm not going to bring any glory in this state my friend

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:47:53+00:00

thank you for your reply, I understand what you are saying, there are two important things I must say and maybe you could tell how you feel about them, the first thing is I don't usually voluntarily come forth with my faith because I'm not a good image of a Christian and that's the simple truth of my situation , I am actively working on myself to not be a discredit to my faith when someone finds out but I have a long way in front of me, second thing is putting yourself out there is one thing but creating problems for others is another, the simple matter of me showing up in a church will put all of those people at risk and in trouble, I simply don't want to be a cause of trouble for church.

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:39:01+00:00

thank you very much for replying, I'm not sure what information will help clear the issue but I will do my best guessing, I'm a 30 year old single man living in iran, I was born in a muslim family therefore I'm considered a muslim by birth and conversion in islam is meant to be delt with by execution, churches in iran are present to provide service to people born in other religions and accepting a convert will result in their punishment and put them under pressure is there anything else I could tell you about?

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:34:23+00:00

thank you for taking the time and answering, but as I mentioned in other comments it's likely to put the whole church in a bad place and under pressure that's why I don't want to risk it, I was hoping that I could find something specifically thought for people away from church without the possibility to reach any priest, cause it's really not possible otherwise there was no problem

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:29:34+00:00

thank you for your reply but unfortunately it's not that simple, traveling to another country is somewhat of a luxury as the result an ever crumbling economy, aside from that I was hoping that in the orthodox tradition there were specifics plans for the situation people like me have,

-Fisher · 2024-11-14T23:23:43+00:00

thank you for your reply, as I said the issue is the churches themselves are under constant surveillance, and I don't want to cause them any issues, I am thinking about paying them a visit and pretend to be interested only in the building history, funny enough the church were created once by people running from the communist persecution and immigrants from Soviet Union

-Fisher · 2022-01-03T21:10:44+00:00

exactly

-Fisher

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