Iranian Christians Refuse to Renounce Christian Faith in Exchange for Freedom from Prison

[JCFantasy23]

Facing a final appeal hearing on Jan. 15 in Tehran, two Iranian Christians were asked by judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar to renounce their faith, which they refused. In response, the judges told them to expect a verdict in their case soon, according to the website CSW.

Last September, Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhteri were charged and convicted of "spreading propaganda against the regime." Both were sentenced to service 12 to 18 months in prison. Fadaie also received an additional two years in internal exile in Nehbandan, a remote area close to the border with Afghanistan.

Local sources reported that the verdict confirming the sentences claimed that discussions of Christian doctrine held in house churches were considered attacks on Islam.

Fadaie is currently serving a 10-year sentence in prison. As CBN News reported, he was arrested with fellow Church of Iran members, Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, Mohammadreza Omidi and Yasser Mossayebzadeh, on 13 May 2016, during a series of raids by security agents on Christian homes in the city of Rasht. In July 2017, all four received 10-year sentences 'for acting against national security' by 'promoting Zionist Christianity', according to CSW.

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[JCFantasy23]

Please pray for these men who, despite being in prison, are refusing to renounce their faith and our Lord. Please pray that justice is served and they are released, and that this country stops its persecution of our brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

In China likewise, where believers have been tortured, arrested, imprisoned for 20 year periods and longer, since around 1950 (note Watchman Nee for one example of millions),
the
meetings of Ekklesia are more pure and holy and true and faithful,
than anywhere in the USA or Europe(as far as known).

THEY (Ekklesia in persecuted countries, have been PRAYING FOR DECADES,
for
Yahweh (G-d) to send persecution/ troubles/ TO THE USA, to purify the believers,
not
to stop persecution (the results of which is fastest growing meetings of faithful believers in the world) .

 

[david tyler]

PRAY FOR THEM ALL AMEN

 

[LoricaLady]

Please pray for these men who, despite being in prison, are refusing to renounce their faith and our Lord. Please pray that justice is served and they are released, and that this country stops its persecution of our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Praying....

 

[Hassie Lebsack]

I have Iranian friends! Great people! I love Arab men- they induce my swooning tendencies.

 

[Jesus' Follower]

Praying for safety and prosperity of those persecuted in Jesus name