10TV - Iranian Pastor Reported Free After Christmas Arrest

January 9, 2013

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By AP News,

An Iranian pastor whose re-arrest on Christmas Day was condemned by two U.S. Congressmen is free again, according to the American Center for Law and Justice.

ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow (SEHK'-yoo-loh) says his group's Christian contacts in Iran report that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (YOO'-sehf nah-dayr-KAH'-nee) was released today and is at home once again with his family.

Nadarkhani, who was raised in a Muslim family, spent almost three years in prison before his release in September. The ACLJ says he had faced a possible death sentence for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. . . .

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