The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional and human rights law, announced Thursday that American Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen being held in an Iranian prison because of his Christian faith, has told his family that he is being threatened with death.
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Iranian-Born American Pastor Arrested and Tortured Without Charges; 2nd Pastor Still Jailed & Ill12/21/2012 An American pastor has been imprisoned on secret charges and tortured in Iran as the country pursues a crackdown on house churches.
Fox News reports that Saeed Abedini, a 32-year-old Iranian man who is a U.S. citizen, was detained while on a visit to see family members and conduct humanitarian work. Abedini, who lives in the United States with his wife and two children, previously spent years in Iran developing house churches. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was a special guest speaker at For Such a Time as This, CSW’s National Conference in London on 10 November, where he thanked those who had prayed and petitioned on his behalf during his incarceration in Iran for almost three years.
“It is the opportunity for me to share about what the Lord did for me and to thank you because you supported me by your prayers, you supported my family in a very difficult time,” he said. Two members of the Church of Iran, who belong to a house church that was raided on Friday 12 October by security forces, were arrested today in the city of Shiraz in Fars Province. Their arrest came after they were summoned to the Intelligence Ministry’s detention centre, Pelak (Plaque 100), where seven other members of their house church are currently being held. Seven Christians from the Church of Iran denomination were detained today following a raid by members of the security services on a house in the city of Shiraz in Fars Province. Mohammad (Vahid) Roghangir, Suroush Saraie, Roxana Forughi, Eskandar Rezaie, Bijan Haghighi, Mehdi Ameruni and Shahin Lahooti are currently being held in Plaque 100, the Intelligence Ministry’s notorious detention centre. They were detained at around 6pm, after security forces raided a house where a prayer meeting was underway. A U.S.-born Israeli author and former politician says it was a "wise" political move by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for early elections in Israel. Israel was not supposed to have elections until October 2013, but Netanyahu has decided to move up the date to early next year. He did not set a date, but said it would be "preferable to have as short a campaign as possible." With two major Arab leaders addressing the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York, an Egyptian-born former Muslim claims Americans now more than ever need to understand the true agenda of Islam.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a "new world order," and Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi rejected free speech rights this week at the U.N. General Assembly. Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared Israel a “fake government” and “uncivilized Zionists” in his speech to the United Nations on Wednesday morning. Speaking of what is wrong with what he called the “current world order,” he condemned the “imposition of a fake government,” Israel, in the Middle East. Just days ago, in preparation for his UN speech, he stated that Israel has “no roots” in the Middle East historically. |
Walter Blackwood
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