Stories tagged with: maryam naghash zargaran

• Ailing Christian convert released from Iran prison

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, August 02, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  TEHRAN, Iran (BP) -- Ailing Christian convert Maryam Naghash Zargaran was released Aug. 1 from an Iranian prison where she had been held four years because of her Christian faith, World Watch Monitor reported today (Aug. 2).

  The sentence for the 39-year-old single mother was scheduled to end July 28, World Watch said, but she was held additional days without explanation. Read More

• Imprisoned Iranian believer in 'urgent' health crisis

  by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Maryam Naghash Zargaran, an imprisoned Iranian convert to Christianity, is in "urgent need of special care."

  An Iranian Christian media outlet, Mohabat News, reported March 24 that Zargaran's health condition "deteriorated last week," citing sources close to her family. Read More

• Abedini church worker near death in Iran prison

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, June 03, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  TEHRAN, Iran (BP) -- A female Christian convert who worked with Saeed Abedini planting house churches years ago in Iran is on a hunger strike and near death in the harsh Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, the freed pastor told Baptist Press.

  Nasim Naghash Zargaran, also known as Maryam, was one of the first persons who converted to Christianity under Abedini's counsel [16 years ago], he told BP, and shortly after Abedini's 2012 imprisonment was arrested because of her vigilant evangelism. Denied proper medical treatment for the heart condition atrial septal defect, diabetes, severe pain and other complications, the 36-year-old Zargaran ... Read More