New Fears for Iranian Pastor on Death Row
In what it described as “an extremely dangerous turn of events,” the American Center for Law and Justice said Monday it had learned from contacts inside Iran that Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor on death row for “apostasy,” looks increasingly likely to be executed.
“Pastor Youcef’s case had been stalled due to increased international pressure and the Iranian court’s request that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, decide Pastor Youcef’s fate,” said ACLJ executive director Jordan Sekulow.
“Now, because Pastor Youcef has continually refused to give into the regime’s demands that he renounce his Christian faith, the likelihood that the Iranian regime will execute him increases by the day.”
Nadarkhani, a married father of two young children, was arrested in October 2009 and has been sentenced to hang for “apostasy.”
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Pastor Youcef is a brave man and we must pray for him and his family. There are many like him in the muslim sewers of the world and they are facing death, rape, slavery and imprisonment. As I have pointed out before, islam is the spiritual equivalent of AIDs – it kills the believer for eternity. Christ is the only cure for this malignant, loathsome disease of the soul.
-BobseeksI agree with Bobseeks. Pastor Youcef sitting on death row certainly need our prayers.
-NikkiA martyr for his faith. The people who execute him are the ones to pray for….they must have evil in their hearts and definitely
-Frantheir souls. Pastor Youcef is a hero in this world and the next.
Better get rid of Obama with the same ideas of religion, if we don't want this to come to America.
-Myrtlelinder