Into the Deep Podcast

Jeff King sits down with Will Stark, ICC’s analyst for India. Since the BJP took control in 2014, the number of persecution incidents against Christians has skyrocketed. Anti-conversion laws are being weaponized by Hindu radicals and using them to justify attacks against minority Christians.

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Jeff King talks with Hedieh Mirahmadi, a former Muslim turned Christian who spent her professional career working with the FBI and the U.S. government, and in the private sector, to defeat Islamic terrorism. After leaving Islam and experience a radical personal encounter with Christ a few years after, her life was completely transformed. She started Resurrect Ministry for people anywhere in the world to develop a personal relationship with the Lord. Hedieh shares her captivating testimony, as well as provides insight from her expertise on the current and evolving situation in Afghanistan.

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Tristan Azbej is the State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program. He talks with Jeff King that while Christianity is facing a humanitarian crisis in persecuted parts of the world, it’s also facing an identity crisis in the West. They delve into the concept of religious freedom and its importance for protecting various other human rights. Once religious freedom fades and intellectual persecution begins, it’s only a matter of time before more blatant forms of persecution emerge.

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Ken Starr’s career track record has one common message: America needs liberty. In his new book, Religious Liberty in Crisis, Starr explores the crises that threaten religious liberty in America. He also examines the ways well-meaning government action sometimes undermines the religious liberty of the people, and how the Supreme Court in the past has ultimately provided us protection from such forms of government overreach. He also explores the possibilities of future overreach by government officials. Jeff King talks with Starr about his career, his book, and his warning for the future of the United States.

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Jeff King interviews Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament for more than 25 years, about her experience facing religious persecution. A Bible verse posted to her personal Facebook page has led to a legal battle that has lasted more than two years. She is facing up to six years in prison for three different “crimes.”

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Mat Staver, with the Liberty Counsel, is a representative of a church who sued the state of California for the discriminatory lockdowns placed on churches at the beginning of the pandemic. The courts overwhelmingly ruled that churches are essential. Jeff King sits down with Mat Staver to talk about the importance of the church, assembly, and the wake-up call Christians need to have in the United States.

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Jeff King was recently interviewed by Lauren Jacobs from the Voice of Change podcast based in South Africa. Almost 80% of the world’s inhabitants live in countries where there are high levels of governmental or societal restrictions on religion. Jeff King president of International Christian Concern for Christian persecution is a stakeholder for the summit, he joins Lauren to talk about advocating for Christian religious freedom and why the IRF Summit is so important.

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Tanner Cross is a physical education teacher in Loudoun Country Public Schools, Virginia. After speaking out against transgender policies at a public school board meeting, he was soon put on administrative leave. Cross and his legal representative are taking the case to Court to defend the basic right to religious freedom under the First Amendment.

To learn more about Tanner’s case, please visit: https://adflegal.org/tanner-cross/donate 

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Jeff King interviews former United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback to discuss the upcoming International Religious Freedom 2021 Summit. Regardless of religion, we should all fight for religious freedom as a human right according to Amb. Brownback. The Summit will be held in Washington D.C. and virtually from July 13-15. For more information, please visit: https://irfsummit.com/

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Is Canada taking advantage of the lockdowns to control religious practices? Jeff King sits down with Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski who has been arrested multiple times for defying police orders to shut down his church last year. A video of him demanding police to leave his church and to come back with a warrant went viral earlier this year. Pastor Pawlowski strongly believes the Canadian government used 2020 as a means to squander religious freedom and target his church to prohibit worship on the Holiest day of the year.

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