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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
United States, British governments have condemned the planned execution, call on Iran to waive the death penalty for Nadarkhani. An Iranian Christian cleric on death row because of his conversion years ago from Islam prompted the United States and...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Iranian evangelical pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has been sentenced to death for apostasy. (Christian Solidarity World) The Iranian Christian pastor who may be put to death for apostasy and refusing to renounce his religion is actually facing the death...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample Gholomali Rezvani, the deputy governor of Gilan province in northwestern Iran, where Nadarkhani was tried and convicted, blamed western media for intentionally obfuscating the...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
Religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe...There are many different religions encompassing a collection of world views and cultural and belief systems...I bring this up because I am tired of hearing those...
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Magic City Morning Star
| over 1 year ago
Grant Swank Sometimes believers become really bent out of shape when the prevailing culture is anti-Christian, or does not seem to "get it" when it comes to Christian concepts. Sometimes Christians can become especially discouraged when lawmakers and...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
This brutality is not Islam The death sentence given to Youcef Nadarkhani in Iran is an affront to universal moral values and a disservice to Muslims Freedom of religion is guaranteed by Islam's holy book in the famous verse: Let there be no...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The United States said Friday it was "deeply troubled" over reports that Iran has jailed a leading reformist, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised concern about repression in Iran. Kalame.com, the website of opposition leader Mir Hossein...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The latest US business and financial news as well as issues and events Sample I deplore reports that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Church leader, could be executed imminently after refusing an order by the Supreme Court of Iran to recant his...
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Christian Science Monitor
| over 1 year ago
This legal challenge from the pulpit won't help people of faith. On Oct. 2, hundreds of Christian pastors are expected to engage in a mass act of civil disobedience across the United States . From their Sunday pulpits, they plan to purposely violate...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
Despite earlier reports his conviction for apostasy would be overturned, campaigners say Yusuf Nadarkhani may still be hanged by the country's Islamic authorities. Prior to his detention, Nadarkhani was a pastor for the Church of Iran, a 400-plus...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The latest US business and financial news as well as issues and events Sample Nadarkhani was arrested in 2009 for the crime of apostasy -- allegedly he abandoned Islam for Christianity -- and sentenced him to death under Islamic Sharia law. As a...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Iran's continued persecution of religious minorities is a particular concern for the U.S. government, the U.S. secretary of state said...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her government was concerned by reports of Iran's continued repression of...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
In 2009, Pastor Nadarkhani was arrested for apostasy charges, allegedly by abandoning Islam and trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, which both carried the death sentence. He was found guilty of apostasy in Sept. 2010, and was sentenced to...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample "[Nadarkhani] was brought to court to repent for three days. He denied repentance on all three days," Nadarkhani's lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
live free and die The proposed hanging of Youssef Nadarkhani is an outrage. It is also a terrifying glimpse of the injustice and arbitrary cruelty of the present Iranian regime Editorial The proposed hanging of Youssef Nadarkhani is an outrage.
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CNSNews.com
| over 1 year ago
The White House called on Iran Thursday to release a Christian pastor facing possible execution after refusing to renounce his faith. Christian organizations, human rights groups and governments fear that Youcef Nadarkhani may hanged in a matter of...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample Pastor Nadarkhani now faces the death penalty and could be executed as soon as Friday. "The United States condemns the conviction of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. Pastor Nadarkhani...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Christian activists say an Iranian pastor faces execution after refusing to renounce his faith during a court hearing this week, a report said. Christian Solidarity Worldwide said it fears Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani will be put to death despite reports...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
The White House statement (from press secretary Jay Carney, not President Obama): The United States condemns the conviction of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. Pastor Nadarkhani has done nothing more than maintain his devout faith, which is a universal...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Lawyer optimism for Iranian death-row Christian cleric Yusuf Naderkhani has apparently refused to renounce his Christian faith The lawyer for an Iranian Christian cleric sentenced to death for apostasy says he is optimistic that his client will be...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Facing execution Youcef Nadarkhani, left, is pictured with his wife and two children in an undated photograph circulated by religious rights organisations Despite assurances that Nadarkhani's case will be sent back to Iran's Supreme Court, supporters...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample Before his last hearing Wednesday, Nadarkhani had been given three previous changes to repent, and all three times he has refused. After his final refusal Wednesday, No verdict...
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Disinfo.com
| over 1 year ago
Posted by majestic on September 29, 2011 John Blake reveals the doublespeak code words and phrases that Christians use to convey hidden meanings to one another, for CNN : Can you speak Christian?...Did you ever name and claim something and, after...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Iran (AP) — The lawyer of an Iranian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy is hopeful an appeals court will acquit his client.
Attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah says he believes in a "95 percent chance" of acquittal for 32-year-old Yusuf...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Religious freedom advocates rallied Wednesday (Sept. 28) around an Iranian pastor who is facing execution because he has refused to recant his Christian faith in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. The British-based group Christian Solidarity...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
And nearly seven in ten said they were Christian, even if they never go to church. Fewer than a quarter said they had no religion and only one in 12 follows another religion. The finding that the nation remains overwhelmingly Christian comes days...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
THE UK's Foreign Secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury intervened today to try to save a Christian pastor in Iran who has refused to renounce his faith to escape a death sentence. An Iranian court gave Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, a third and final...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample While an appeal trial determined that Nadarkhani was not an apostate, Iran's Supreme Court upheld the original decision from the 11th branch of Iran's Gilan Provincial Court .
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Fox
| over 1 year ago
An undated photograph circulated by religious rights organizations shows Youcef Nadarkhani and his family. An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
An undated photograph circulated by religious rights organizations shows Youcef Nadarkhani and his family. An Iranian pastor who has refused to recant his Christian faith now faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an...
