Break Point - An American in Iran, Support an Imprisoned Pastor

By Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint.org

Most Americans have probably heard about Iran’s recent claim to have launched a monkey into space. But very few have ever heard of Saeed Abedini, and that’s just how the Iranian government wants it. . . .

After his conversion, Abedini became active in the house church movement, so active that he moved to the United States in 2005, becoming a citizen in 2010, to avoid persecution.

While he may have emigrated, Abedini maintained ties with his homeland. The most important of these ties is an orphanage he’s helping to build in the city of Rasht. It was during an attempted visit in last September that Abedini was arrested by Iranian authorities.

What followed was, in the words of Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, a “real travesty” and “mockery of justice.” The Iranian government seems intent on making an example of Abedini, even though he denies evangelizing in Iran. . . .

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