By Katherine Burgess WASHINGTON (RNS) Congress is pressing for the release of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned in Iran for his religious beliefs since September 2012. On Wednesday (Nov. 20) the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bipartisan resolution condemning Iran’s persecution of religious minorities and urging Abedini’s immediate…
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…
By ASSIST News Service American Pastor Saeed Abedini, serving an eight-year prison sentence in Iran because of his Christian faith, is directly appealing to Iran’s newly elected President Hassan Rouhani for justice and freedom. In a letter written to the Iranian president, Abedini called on the new president to follow through on his pledge of…
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 International Christian Concern International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that two men accused of helping a young woman flee Saudi Arabia after her conversion to Christianity were sentenced to prison terms and lashes with a whip by a Saudi court on Sunday. The case comes weeks after an independent U.S. government advisory body listed…
By Lisa Daftari The American pastor jailed in Iran for his faith has been placed in solitary confinement and may now be suffering organ failure, according to family members in Iran who are increasingly alarmed at his deteriorating health. Saeed Abedini, the 32-year-old Christian and American citizen who is serving an eight-year prison term in…
By John Rottman One of the latest ideas that I heard for securing a few more square inches of Christ’s kingdom sounds absolutely crazy. The plan is to take a thousand minimum security prisoners from a prison in Louisiana and move them into Angola Prison, a maximum security prison once known as the bloodiest prison…
By John Jessup After a public hearing and a petition with more than half a million names, pressure is mounting on the Iranian regime to release an American pastor sentenced to eight years in one of the country’s most notorious prisons. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, Pastor Saeed Abedini met with…
By Heather Clark WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Congressional hearing that is set for this week will include testimony on an American pastor that is serving a sentence of eight years in a notoriously brutal Iranian prison. According to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S….