By Heather Clark MINNEAPOLIS – A pastor who works as a school bus driver during the week recently lost his job for praying with the children who ride his bus. George Nathaniel, 49, is the pastor of both the Elite Church of the First Born and Grace Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis. He has worked…
By Heather Clark Fears are mounting following reports that an American pastor who is imprisoned in Iran has been transferred to an even more dangerous prison in the country. As previously reported, Pastor Saeed Abedini of Idaho, a former Muslim, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and children…
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 Anugrah Kumar In the first communication between the leaders of the United States and Iran since 1979, President Barack Obama on Friday (Sept. 26) spoke to President Hassan Rouhani by phone and called for the release of American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is in an Iranian prison because of his Christian faith and has…
Open Doors USA The eyes of the world are focused on Syria. Open Doors received the prayer of a pastor, one of our partners in Syria in the relief work there. It is a moving and heart-breaking prayer. It gives insight into the suffering of the people who have decided to stay in war-torn Syria….
By Heather Clark TEHRAN – An appeals court in Iran has rejected an appeal on behalf of an American pastor incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in the country, and has refused to reduce his sentence despite growing international pressure. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been fighting for…
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 American pastor jailed in Iran for his Christian faith has managed to get a letter out to his global supporters, thanking them for their prayers while confirming the brutality of his conditions. Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident serving an eight-year prison term in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, passed the letter…
By CBN News Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned for his faith in Iran, has been released from solitary confinement and returned to the general population of Evin Prison. Pastor Saeed spent more than a week in what’s described as a “small dark hole.” “This is a critical development and does raise hope after a…
By Belinda Croft American Pastor Saeed Abedini has been held in Iran’s Evin Prison since September 2012 and in January 2013 was sentenced to eight years in prison – accused of evangelising and threatening national security. It is reported that he has been beaten and refused medical attention. Saeed Abedini met his wife in 2002,…