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  • Persecution Against Christian Converts in Iran Escalating

    12/02/2005 11:20:03 PM PST · by F14 Pilot · 10 replies · 592+ views
    Iran va Jahan ^ | Friday, December 02, 2005
    Christians in Iran, especially converts from Islam, have experienced growing persecution from the government since the new Iranian President was installed, according to reports. The recent wave of persecution traces back to the kidnapping and stabbing of an Iranian convert to Christianity named Ghorban Tori on Nov. 22. Since Tori’s death, not only was the church to which he belonged raided, but ten other Christians were arrested in other cities, including the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to Compass Direct. The murdered 50-year-old Tori was a leader of an independent house church of Christian converts in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town east of...
  • FAITH UNDER FIRE Iran imprisons Christian pastor (Religion of Peace Alert)

    02/18/2005 3:03:46 PM PST · by Jacob Kell · 1 replies · 210+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 18, 2005 | WorldNetDaily.com
    A U.S. human-rights group is protesting Iran's imprisonment of an Iranian pastor and former army colonel convicted of not declaring his conversion from Islam to Christianity before he was promoted to the rank of officer. A Tehran military court sentenced Hamid Pourmand, 47, to three years in jail, the maximum penalty, according to a report from the U.S.-based Christian news service Compass Direct.