Apostates are living in fear for their lives, also, from Misunderstanders of the Religion of Peace. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: "BREAKING NEWS: Iran Pastor Facing Execution, Church Official," by Stefan J. Bos for BosNewsLife, July 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known Iranian pastor faces execution after two judges agreed to make him "liable to capital punishment," as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, July 13.Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was detained in June along with wife Fatemeh Pasandideh in the city of Rasht in northwestern Iran because of their Christian activities, Iranian Christians said.
A senior pastor of the Church of Iran movement, which includes house churches across the country, told BosNewsLife that judges had "already signed" an Islamic order that would potentially allow a death sentence for Nadarkhani, pending further investigations. The pastor usually speaks on condition of anonymity to BosNewsLife amid security concerns.
News of the execution overshadowed joy over the release of two Church of Iran Christians, a man and a woman, and the expected release this week on bail of two other members, who the movement only identified as "brothers Mehdi and Afshin."
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They were part of a group of eight Church of Iran members detained June 18, the senior pastor said. One of them, a pastor's wife identified as Fatemeh Kojouri Tork, remained in Tehran's notorious Evin prison Tuesday, July 13, while her husband, Behrouz Sadegh Khanjani, was kept in isolation in a security prison in the southwestern city of Shiraz, the Christian leader said.
"We still do not hear from Reverend Behrouz Khanjani..." Iranian Christians have also expressed concerns about reports of other detentions, including last month's capture of Pastor Behnam Irani in the city of Karaj, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) west of Tehran.
Several believers have allegedly been mistreated. "We have learned that information that [security forces] have been using substances to extract confessions from Christians," the senior pastor said....
Church sources say the number of Christians in Iran has grown from 500 known believers in 1979 to at least 100,000 today.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly said the government needed to halt the growing movement of house churches across Iran.
Under Iran's strict interpretation of Islam, "apostasy" -- or the formal renunciation of religion-- is punishable by death.
There is no Islamic sect or school of jurisprudence that does not teach that apostasy is punishable by death.
Breaking News.
the reason islam needs to keep their people inline is that when given the freedom they will leave islam in droves. even in hostile islamic countries, many still leave islam. may God keep these Christians safe!
"Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was detained in June along with wife Fatemeh Pasandideh in the city of Rasht in northwestern Iran because of their Christian activities..."
like living....
May God protect the Christians of Iran.
But if this growth of Christianity among Iranians is for real, it may well show that the chief casualty of the jihadi movement--whether Sunni, Shi'ah, Ibadi, or Ahmadi--will be Islam itself.
回到耶路撒冷！
Will Barack Obama open his royal mouth and warn the Iranian counterpart of behave-like the Republican president Ronald Regan? -Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.
The episode reached a climax when, after failed attempts to negotiate a release, the United States military attempted a rescue operation, Operation Eagle Claw, on April 24, 1980, which resulted in a failed mission, the destruction of two aircraft and the deaths of eight Americans. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in,the hostages were immediately released into united States,fearing the consequence of the new American president.
With Islamists, peaceful negotiations will not work. Only threat and the policy of 'tooth for a tooth'.
"..as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation.."
This is the beginning of a mass exodus from Islam. It is a movement that is already in motion and nothing can stop it.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
The wonder is that Iranians dare convert and become christians at all. They really must know by now what will happen to them, what shall happen to anyone who opposes the mullahs.
The Iranian leaders feel free to destroy all of their
people that do not toe the line they lay down, totalitarian
thugs with considerable blood on their hands will someday
face the real God of the Universe and His wrath for their
conduct. Christians world wide will pray for the prisoners
of Iran for their release and safety. Why is there no
word of condemnation from the fearless UN, why does this
world body have nothing to say nor take action that means
anything. The World must take action against the barbarian
leadership and their thugish followers, human dignity demands it..........William
These are the saints, confessors and martyrs of the church in Persia.
"Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was detained in June along with wife Fatemeh Pasandideh" and, too "a pastor's wife identified as Fatemeh Kojouri Tork".
Youcef and Fatemeh, and another Fatemeh (i.e. 'Fatima').
They started life as slaves of Islam.
Then they left Islam, and became free.
If they die, they die as a free man and as free women. They have *lived*, instead of merely obeying the lethal cult programming of the long-dead-and-buried Mohammed ha-Meshugga.
May the God who stood in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and the hidden God who stood beside Esther in the court of Persia, be with them in the deep darkness of the pit.
Let there be light.
Muslims can preach and build mosques, minarets everywhere in the world but we cannot even pray in the Islamic countries. How long we have to appease them? Jesus has taught us non-violence but has asked us to be cowards. The time has come to hit them hard, and thats the only way we shall be able to get rid of the jihadists. We need to pay them in their same coin. If their Mohamad has asked to create terror in the hearts of the non-muslims, then we need to create twice that terror in their hearts: we are there to catch you.