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When most people picture evangelism, they imagine traveling to foreign countries, sharing the Gospel with strangers or hosting worship nights in different languages. What we often forget, however, is that sharing the name of Jesus and the Word of God is actually persecuted in many places. When pastors and leading evangelists share, they can and do often end up imprisoned, tortured or dead. For one Baptist preacher in Syria, that has certainly been the case.
Nihad Hassan, a Kurdish Baptist pastor and leader of a Kurdish-speaking congregation in Beirut, Lebanon, was detained for the last two weeks (July 20- Aug. 3) while visiting family in Afrin, Syria, due to practicing a religion that’s “offensive to Islam and the Prophet of Islam.”
According to the Baptist Standard, though Hassan was recently released, arrests for people of the faith have become increasingly more common. Christian men have specifically been targeted by the Syrian national security.