Stories tagged with: naghmeh abedini

• Saeed Abedini files for divorce from Naghmeh

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, October 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Formerly imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini has filed for divorce from his wife Naghmeh nearly 10 months after she sought legal separation from him, the two revealed on Facebook. Read More

• Saeed Abedini requests prayer for marriage

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (8 years ago)

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Freed pastor Saeed Abedini has requested prayer for his relationship with his wife Naghmeh as court proceedings continue in her filing for legal separation.

  "I am grateful for marriage counselors who have been helping me but my wife's relationship with me is not good at this point, so we need prayer that she joins this counseling process with us," the 35-year-old pastor wrote Feb. 14 in his first Facebook comments since his release in January from an Iranian prison where he had been held three-and-a-half years because of his Christian faith. Read More

• Abedini praises wife, denies 'much' of abuse claim

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, February 02, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Zybandeh Abedini

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Saeed Abedini denied "much" of what his wife Naghmeh Abedini has alleged of spousal abuse and a pornography addiction in his first statements about their marriage since his release from an Iranian prison, but he praised his wife for advocating for his freedom.

  "Much of what I have read in Naghmeh's [Facebook] posts and subsequent media reports is not true," he said in a Jan. 30 statement to his hometown newspaper, the Idaho Statesman. "But I believe we should work on our relationship in private and not on social media or other media. Naghmeh wrote this week, 'We are taking personal time to work on very serious personal issues.' I intend to do this hard work in private." Read More

• Naghmeh Abedini explains 'legal action' against Saeed

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (8 years ago)

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Naghmeh Abedini has taken legal action against her husband Saeed Abedini to make sure their children remain in Idaho while the couple works to save their marriage, and revealed on Facebook today (Jan. 27) scant details of alleged spousal abuse she called "a growing cancer." Read More

• Baptist Press interviews Naghmeh Abedini

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, January 22, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Samaritan's Purse photo

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Naghmeh Abedini is making plans to join her husband Saeed Abedini at the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove in Asheville, N.C., where he has been resting with his parents and sister since arriving there Thursday (Jan. 21) from Berlin, Germany.

  She changed earlier plans to fly with the children to meet her husband in Germany, where he was receiving medical treatment after his release from unjust imprisonment in Iran, after the couple determined he needed more time to heal psychologically, she told Baptist Press today (Jan. 22). Read More

• Saeed Abedini in Germany awaiting wife's arrival

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, January 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  GERMANY (BP) -- The wife of freed pastor Saeed Abedini is expected to meet him in Germany, according to news reports released today (Jan. 19), where his health was being assessed after his release from a three-and-a-half-year imprisonment in Iran. Read More

• Iranian pastor Fathi freed from prison

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, December 23, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Farshid Fathi

  TEHRAN, Iran (BP) -- Iranian pastor Farshid Fathi has been freed after five years imprisonment in Tehran because of charges linked to his Christian faith, Middle East Concern announced Dec. 22, estimating nearly 100 Christians remain imprisoned there.

  "We are so thankful to the Lord for his protection over Farshid while in prison," Middle East Concern said in a press release. "It is our hope that the Gospel will continue to spread throughout Iran." Read More

• Naghmeh Abedini regrets emails of marital woe

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, November 16, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The wife of imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini has voiced regret for emails she sent to close friends reportedly accusing the pastor of spousal abuse stemming from what was described in press reports as his addiction to pornography.

  In two emails to close friends, Abedini disclosed that her marriage to Saeed Abedini has been troubled by "physical, emotional, ... Read More

• Naghmeh Abedini says faith 'more real' than before

  by Morning Star News/Middle East correspondent, posted Wednesday, September 30, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  ISTANBUL, Turkey, (BP) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday (Sept. 30) declined to meet with the wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini during his trip to the United Nations, days after the Christian's wife learned her husband had recently been tortured.

  Rouhani instead said in a television interview that releasing Iranian criminals held in U.S. prisons would change the ... Read More

• Abedini prayer vigils set globally 9/26

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, September 16, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Facebook photo

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini is on a 21-day "Daniel" fast and is organizing prayer vigils internationally Sept. 26, the third anniversary of her husband's imprisonment in Iran for his Christian faith.

  Naghmeh Abedini, in asking Christians to pray for her husband and the persecuted church, also is promoting a letter-writing campaign to ask United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to advocate for Abedini's release when Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks Sept. 28 at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Read More