- Hussain Andaryas
Hussain Andaryas (
June 23 ,1965 ) is aChristian Afghan American and tele-evangelist who hosts many websites and radio programs.Andaryas was born in
Bombay ,India , into aShia Hazara family but was raised inKabul ,Afghanistan . He comes from the sub-tribe Oqi from Jaghoori. Hussain converted fromIslam toChristianity after nine years of comparative studies on both religions. [ [http://www.hesavedme.com/story.htm He saved me: The story of Hussain Andaryas from Afghanistan] ]Andaryas runs over 32 websites in both Dari,
Pashto and English whose main objectives are to help and provide spiritual support to Afghan Christians around the world as well as proselytising Afghan Muslims. He has a daily radio program in Afghanistan. He also has a weekly one hour LIVE TV program that comes every Tuesday and repeats twice on Wednesday through Hot Bird. This TV talk show is also Co-hosted by Noor Agha Logari who hails from the Logar Valley, from the Mulakhel Tribe. [ [http://www.afghantv.com/ Afghan Television - Voice of Christ] ]Hussain's first website was probably the first ever Persian website on the Internet through tripod.com's free web-space in
1996 . In1997 while Andaryas was residing inNew Delhi ,India he acquired a domain name called watandar and set up the first website for Afghan Christians. [ [http://www.watandar.tv/ Watandar] ]He helped to bring the attention of the international media towards the arrest of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity who was facing the death penatly by the Afghanistan Court, through his news website. [ [http://www.afghantimes.com/index2.htm News coverage of Abdul Rahman] ]
Andaryas is also the editor of the newspaper Afghan Times and lives in the state of
Tennessee ,USA . His newspaper is an Afghan Christian News Network with daily news from Afghanistan and the Afghan Christians both within and outside Afghanistan.References
External links
* [http://www.hesavedme.com Official website of Hussain Andaryas]
* [http://www.andaryas.com Weblog of Hussain Andaryas]
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