A Love Story
Zeina and Mahmoud have just fallen in love
and they can't stop talking about the One they
love... Jesus.
Almost as soon as they believed, Zeina
stopped wearing the veil, which makes her stand out
in her small Shiite village. A worker told her to
slow down, to not be so obvious but she said, "I
can't! I can't slow down. I have to tell
everyone."
Zeina has told her whole family that she and
Mahmoud are followers of Jesus. The worker was
concerned that the family might persecute or even
kill this precious couple, but Zeina assured him.
"They may be Shiite, but they are supporting us."
One day recently, Mahmoud asked the worker,
"Are we Christians?"... a term that, in that part
of the world, has major cultural and political
implications. "No," the worker told him. "You
still belong to the same village. Now you are
Shiite followers of Jesus."