Posts Tagged ‘iran’
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Amnesty: Executions in the Middle East Alarming
— Twenty-one nations carried out the death penalty in 2012, according to Amnesty International's yearly report, published Wednesday. That is the same number as in 2011 - but a marked shift from ten years ago, when 28 countries ...
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5 Iranian Christians on trial for practicing faith
Quran Gate in Shiraz, Iran. (Amir Hussain Zolfaghary, Wikipedia) ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Five Christian converts arrested last year in Iran went on trial on Sunday (March 10) for leaving Islam and were handed enormous ba...
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CSW: Pastor Nadarkhani still alive
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is refuting claims that Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has been executed in Iran.
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Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani believed to be dead
An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.
Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was m...
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World powers, Iran hold nuclear talks
Officials from six world powers and Iran are meeting to discuss the country's controversial nuclear program, in the latest talks to address a decade of concerns that Iran is working to develop a nuclear weapon.The meeting Tuesd...
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Iranian-American Pastor Abedini writes of torture, pressure to renounce faith
Saeed Abedini and wife Nagmeh. (ACLJ photo) ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – An Iranian-American pastor imprisoned for planting house churches in Iran years ago writes that he is undergoing torture, death threats, and pressure to...
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#SaveSaeed: An international push to free an American pastor in Iran
(ANS) -- In addition to legal and diplomatic efforts by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) to free to free American Pastor Saeed Abedini, the group is spearheading an international social media effort to raise aware...
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Vatican shoots down claim that Iran backed John Paul assassination attempt
The Vatican on Friday (Feb. 1) dismissed a claim by the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II that the assassination attempt had been ordered by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Iran sentences pastor to 8 years in prison
Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s most notorious prison today for allegedly threatening “national security” by planting house churches years ago.
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Iran says American tried to turn children against Islam
Iran on Monday accused an Idaho man of trying to entice young people to Christianity and away from the country’s official religion, Islam, the man’s American-based legal team says.