Hussain Andaryas

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Hussain Andaryas (June 23, 1965) is an Afghan Christian and tele-evangelist who hosts many websites and radio programs. He was born in the city of Bombay into a Shia Hazara family but was raised in Kabul , Afghanistan but converted from Islam to Christianity after nine years of comparitive studies on both religions.^[1]

He runs over 20 websites in both Dari and English whose main objectives are to help and provide spiritual support to Afghan Christians around the world as well as prosletyzing 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. ^[2]

His first website was probably the first ever Persian website on the Internet through tripod.com's free web-space in 1996. In 1997 while Andaryas was residing in New Delhi, India he acquired a domain name called watandar and set up the first website for Afghan Christians.^[3]

He helped to bring the attention of the international media towards the arrest of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity who sentenced to death by the Afghanistan Court through his news website.^[4]

He also is 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.