By Lisa Daftari The American pastor imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith has sent an Easter message from his hospital bed to his family of supporters across the globe, reminding them of the importance of faith. Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident who has served one year of an eight-year prison term in Iran…
By David Ashby Naghmeh Abedini remembers the day in September 2012 when her life, in her words, “crumbled.” Her husband Saeed, a Christian pastor, was visiting Iran at the time to see his family and work on the construction of an orphanage. “I got a call at midnight from his mom and she was crying,…
By Stoyan Zaimov U.S. pastor Saeed Abedini was reportedly pinned down and shackled on Wednesday at an Iranian hospital, where he was also denied much needed surgery. “This morning Iranian guards lashed out violently against Pastor Saeed and an elderly relative who had been able to visit him in the hospital. Pastor Saeed was pinned…
By Christian T. George A curtain is all that separates U.S. citizen Saeed Abedini from the murderers and rapists in Iran’s deplorable Rajai Shahr prison. Robbed, tortured, and promised release if he denounces his Christian faith, Abedini continues to be deprived of basic human and religious rights. A former Muslim, Abedini converted to Christianity thirteen…
By J.C. Derrick WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers blasted the Obama administration on Thursday for negotiating with Iran without demanding the release of three U.S. prisoners being held in the country. The comments came at a joint subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of imprisoned American citizen and pastor Saeed Abedini, headlined…
By Grace Thornton BOISE, Idaho (BP) — “Be patient and endure.” From an Iranian jail cell, Saeed Abedini penned those words in a letter to his daughter Rebekka for her seventh birthday this year. But as the American pastor marked a year in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison with no hint of a coming release, “enduring”…
By Stoyan Zaimov The longer Iranian authorities keep Pastor Saeed Abedini in prison, the more people will be exposed to the Gospel, argued his wife Naghmeh Abedini before Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse ministries last week. “They (The Iranian authorities) don’t realize that the longer they keep him, the more people are hearing about the Gospel,”…
CBNNews.com The wife of the American pastor imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith says her husband remains bold for Jesus Christ in prison. Saeed Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh, recently spoke to students at Liberty University about her family’s plight. She said in spite of being tortured and asked to deny his faith in Christ and…
By Anugrah Kumar Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is in an Iranian prison because of his Christian faith, said she believes God will bring her husband back home, but added that even if He doesn’t He is still a good God. She is spending their ninth wedding anniversary alone on…
By Lisa Daftari The wife of the Iranian-American pastor held in Iran, along with U.S. attorneys representing the family, have traveled to Geneva and will present his case to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday, urging the organization to push harder for the pastor’s immediate release. Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident serving an…