{"id":233,"date":"2011-08-12T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menorahmusic.com\/wp\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-08-12T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:42:33","slug":"iran%e2%80%99s-christian-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menorahmusic.com\/wp\/2011\/08\/12\/iran%e2%80%99s-christian-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Christian Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s Christian Shutdown<\/a><\/h2>\n

Posted by Frank Crimi Bio \u2193 on Jul 19th, 2011
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\"Iran's<\/a>Iran\u2019s Supreme Court has upheld<\/a> a lower court ruling that Yosef Nadarkhani, a 32 year-old Iranian evangelical pastor, must reject his Christian faith or be put to death. It\u2019s the latest incident in the Islamist Republic\u2019s continuous and increased assault on its small Christian population.<\/p>\n

Nadarkhani was first arrested on the charge of apostasy (leaving Islam for another faith) in October 2009 and sentenced<\/a> to death by hanging for his refusal to teach Islam to Christian children. While Nadarkhani hadn\u2019t practiced any faith before he became a Christian at age19, he was born to Muslim parents and thus considered<\/a> to be a Muslim under Islamic law.<\/p>\n

As such, Nadarkhani\u2019s conviction was upheld in September 2010 by a lower Iranian court when it found that he had proven his apostasy by \u201corganizing evangelistic meetings, sharing his faith, inviting others to convert, and running a house church.\u201d At that point, Nadarkhani appealed to Iran\u2019s Supreme Court to have his death sentence reversed but that appeal has now been rejected.<\/p>\n

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