Iranian Pastor Faces Execution for Refusing to Recant Christian Faith

Fox News

Iranian Pastor Faces Execution for Refusing to Recant Christian Faith

Fox News

Iranian Pastor Faces Execution for Refusing to Recant Christian Faith

An Iranian pastor who has refused to recant his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an Iranian court. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and therefore must recant his faith in Jesus Christ, the 11th branch of Iran's Gilan Provincial Court ruled. Iran's had ordered the trial court to determine whether Nadarkhani had been a Muslim prior to converting to The judges, according to the American Center for Law & Justice, demanded ...

Click To Read Full Article

Sept 28, 2011

Related News

Washington Post

Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani faces potential execution

Washington Post

Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani faces potential execution

Just days after Iran released two Americans accused of spying, an and therefore must recant his faith in Jesus Christ. Iran’s supreme court had previously ruled that the trial court must determine if Youcef had been a Muslim before converting to Christianity. However, the judges, acting like ...

Sept 27, 2011

Sponsored Ad

Iranian Events Around the World

We process 500-1000 new events every month using data robots and user/advertiser submissions, and then list them on local maps in bilingual ...

Huffington Post

Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian Pastor Faces Execution For Refusing To Recant His Christian Faith

Huffington Post

Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian Pastor Faces Execution For Refusing To Recant His Christian Faith

WAHSINGTON (RNS) 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 Worldwide has asked international ...

Sept 28, 2011

CNN

Iranian pastor refuses to reject religion, faces execution

CNN

Iranian pastor refuses to reject religion, faces execution

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, the head of a network of Christian house churches in Iran, could be executed as soon as midnight Wednesday in Tehran for refusing to recant his religious beliefs and convert to Islam, said the chair of a commission that monitors religious freedom around the world. A ...

Sept 28, 2011

Sponsored Ad

Advertise with us

Lower cost than Facebook, TV, Paper or Radio Ads: Show your ad to Geo-targeted users next to other top news and popular events for only $10-$50 ...

Telegraph

William Hague urges Iran to spare life of pastor facing execution

Telegraph

William Hague urges Iran to spare life of pastor facing execution

William Hague has urged Iran to spare the life of a pastor reportedly facing execution for refusing to recant his Christian faith and return to Islam.

Sept 29, 2011

Yahoo! News

Lawyer: Appeals court may acquit Iranian pastor

Yahoo! News

Lawyer: Appeals court may acquit Iranian pastor

TEHRAN, Iran – 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 Naderkhani. Naderkhani turned to Christianity when he was ...

Sept 29, 2011

Washington Post

Lawyer for Iranian pastor on death row hopes appeals court may acquit his client

Washington Post

Lawyer for Iranian pastor on death row hopes appeals court may acquit his client

TEHRAN, Iran — 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 Naderkhani./ Naderkhani turned to Christianity when he was ...

Sept 29, 2011

Sponsored Ad

Advertise with us

Lower cost than Facebook, TV, Paper or Radio Ads: Show your ad to Geo-targeted users next to other top news and popular events for only $10-$50 ...

Telegraph

Lawyer hopes Iran Christian pastor will be freed

Telegraph

Lawyer hopes Iran Christian pastor will be freed

The lawyer for Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing the death sentence for converting from Islam, has said he is "optimistic" that the final verdict could see his client set free./ "Our last court session was held on Wednesday. Mr Nadarkhani did not repent and the last court verdict said ...

Sept 29, 2011

CNN

Iranian pastor refuses to reject religion, faces execution

CNN

Iranian pastor refuses to reject religion, faces execution

Sept 29, 2011

VOA News

Lawyer Hopes Iranian Christian Sentenced to Death Will be Freed

VOA News

Lawyer Hopes Iranian Christian Sentenced to Death Will be Freed

The lawyer for an Iranian Christian pastor, sentenced to death for renouncing the Muslim religion, says he hopes an appeals court will set his client free. Attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said Thursday he thinks there is a “95 percent chance” of acquittal for Youcef Nadarkhani, who appeared in ...

Sept 29, 2011

Sponsored Ad

Iranian Events Around the World

We process 500-1000 new events every month using data robots and user/advertiser submissions, and then list them on local maps in bilingual ...

Trinidad's leader backtracks and says US Marines are in the country working on airport radar

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)/ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister of retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the ...

Two hours ago

BBC

Thirteen killed in deadliest Israeli raid for months in southern Syria

A gun battle and air strikes resulted in the deadliest incident of its kind for months/ At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria overnight, state media reported, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind for months. It said children were among the ...

21 hours ago

BBC

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender

BBC correspondent examines footage showing moments leading up to shooting in the occupied West Bank/ Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli ...

23 hours ago

Yahoo! News

UK waters down unfair dismissal plan after business pushback

A worker fills a bag with wood chip biomass at Nova Pangaea Technologies, in Redcar, Britain, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/ LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's government watered down plans to strengthen workers' protection against unfair dismissal on Thursday, saying employees would get the ...

Peoria under sewer overflow alert for Thanksgiving

Nov 27, 2025

Yahoo! News

Peoria under sewer overflow alert for Thanksgiving

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...

Nov 26, 2025

BBC

Year after ceasefire, peace eludes south Lebanon as Israeli strikes continue

Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...

New finds in Turkey's southeast add to picture of Neolithic age

Nov 26, 2025

Yahoo! News

New finds in Turkey's southeast add to picture of Neolithic age

A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton urging state schools not to sign CSC’s participation agreement

Nov 26, 2025

Yahoo! News

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton urging state schools not to sign CSC’s participation agreement

A letter from the Texas state attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity before it has really even got going. In a three-page letter sent to the seven power conference universities in Texas, Ken Paxton implores the schools not to sign the College Sports ...

Nov 25, 2025

BBC

Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court

Mohammed Ibrahim was 15 when he was arrested at his family's holiday home in the occupied West Bank/ A Palestinian-American teenager is expected to appear in court in Israel later this week after nine months in detention without being charged. Mohammed Ibrahim, who is 16 and lives in Florida, ...

Rescuers find grandmother and 3 grandchildren who went missing on a hike in South Carolina

Nov 25, 2025

Yahoo! News

Rescuers find grandmother and 3 grandchildren who went missing on a hike in South Carolina

This photo combination of images provided by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office shows from top left, Michael Lawton, Melody Bangs, Tonda Michelin, and Dale Moser. (Greenville County Sheriff's Office via AP)/ CLEVELAND, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday found a grandmother and three ...

« Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next »

May 11, 2020

Iran raises death toll in friendly fire missile strike to 19

Iranian Warship Hits Another With Missile During Training Accident, ... - Huffington Post
Iranian navy ship Konarak 'sunk by friendly fire' from frigate - BBC

+ 3 more articles

March 26, 2020

Family concludes former FBI agent Robert Levinson died in Iran

Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Has Died In Iranian Custody, Family Confirms - Huffington Post
Robert Levinson: Iran denies US former agent died there - BBC

+ 7 more articles

Jan 2, 2020

Attack on US Embassy exposes widening US-Iraq divide on Iran

US embassy attack: Protesters withdraw after standoff in Iraq - BBC
Militiamen Withdraw From U.S. Embassy But Iraq Tensions Linger - Huffington Post

+ 5 more articles

Dec 31, 2019

PHOTOS: Iraqi Shiites break into U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

Baghdad protesters target US embassy - BBC
Militiamen Breach U.S. Embassy In Baghdad; Trump Blames Iran - Huffington Post

+ 9 more articles

Nov 20, 2019

Israel Launches Airstrikes in Syria to Target Iranian Forces

Israel strikes Iranian military targets in Syria following missile launch - Washington Post
Israel and Syria exchange fire, Syrian aerial defense batteries ... - Fox News

+ 8 more articles

Nov 19, 2019

Three security personnel killed in Iran amid wave of unrest

Iran says calm has been restored after fuel price hike unrest - Reuters
Iran's 'largest internet shutdown ever' is happening now. Here's what ... - CNN

+ 5 more articles

Nov 17, 2019

Iran's Khamenei backs fuel price hike, blames 'sabotage' for unrest

Iran’s Supreme Leader Condemns Protesters as ‘Thugs’ - NY Times
At least 1 dead in Iran protests over gas prices - Fox News

+ 11 more articles

Nov 13, 2019

Israel's military campaign against Islamic Jihad continues, ceasefire ...

Israel-Gaza 'ceasefire begins' after two days of fighting - BBC
More than 200 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza after Islamic Jihad ... - Fox News

+ 9 more articles

Nov 10, 2019

Iran has discovered an oil field with an estimated 53 billion barrels ...

Iran oil: New field with 53bn barrels found - Rouhani - BBC
Iran's president: New oil field found with over 50 billion barrels - Fox News

+ 5 more articles

Nov 9, 2019

For First Time, Iran Says Case Is Open on Missing C.I.A. Consultant

Iran acknowledges retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, missing since ... - Fox News
Iran says case open on ex-FBI agent missing there on CIA job - Yahoo! News

+ 4 more articles