For the third Christmas in a row, Christian American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been imprisoned in Iran for his faith since 2012, is missing his family. And despite being cold and threatened by inmates in prison, Abedini encouraged Christians in a moving and at times heartbreaking letter to his family from his prison cell to keep hoping in God.
View More Pastor Saeed Abedini Pens Moving Christmas Letter From Prison to Family, Believers: ‘These Days Are Very Cold Here’ The Iranian prison where American pastor Saeed Abedini is now being held is “regarded as one of Iran’s harshest jails because of its high number of cases of torture, rape and murder,” according to press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
View More American Pastor Moved to Dangerous Iranian Prison; Obama Urged to Speak Up After spending his 33rd birthday inside the “small dark hole” of solitary confinement, U.S. Pastor Saeed Abedini has been returned to the general prison population of Evin Prison in Iran. But that doesn’t mean that he is out of danger.
View More Update: Pastor Saeed Abedini Released From Solitary Confinement Saeed Abedini, a minister jailed for eight years in Iran, has been threatened that he must deny Christ and return to Islam or that he will not be released – even after his sentence has been served.
View More Jailed Minister In Iran Told To Deny Christ Or Never Be Released