Stories tagged with: iran

• Iran attacks 'a sober moment' for America

  by BP Special Report, posted Wednesday, January 08, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Evangelicals may differ about the best response to Iran's Jan. 8 missile attack against military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, but they seem united in acknowledging the gravity of the situation and calling for prayer.

  America confronts "a sober moment in history as we face possible armed conflict against Iran," said Douglas Carver, former chief of chaplains for the U.S. Army, noting that a military response "has always been America's last resort." 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: $400M 'ransom' debate best left to leaders

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 05, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Pastor Saeed Abedini is reluctant to question the purpose of $400 million in foreign currency the Obama administration paid to Iran during a prison swap that secured Abedini's release from an Iranian prison in January. Read More

• Abedini: 'God saved me' from death in Iran

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, January 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- American pastor Saeed Abedini prayed hours at times to survive years of abuse and unjust imprisonment in Iran for his Christian faith, and described his prayers as a "wonderful time with the Lord" which he enjoyed.

  In his first media interview since his release from an Iranian prison was announced Jan. 16, Abedini told FOX News' Greta Van Susteren of the brutal physical and psychological torture he suffered in Iran for three and half years. Read More

• Baptist Press interviews Naghmeh Abedini

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

  

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  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

• Iran deal called a 'misstep' but may help evangelism

  by David Roach, posted Friday, September 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Though the White House has secured sufficient congressional support of the Iran nuclear deal to ensure its implementation, Southern Baptist legislators continue to warn the accord could facilitate Islamic terrorism.

  In a Sept. 10 procedural consideration, Senate opponents of the deal fell two votes shy of the 60 votes needed to bring it to a final vote, CNN reported. Senate Republicans were considering a revote while House leaders planned multiple votes on the deal. Read More

• U.S.-Iran prisoner swaps challenged

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, July 22, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Though America's release of four Iranian prisoners in 2012-13 was viewed by some as reciprocation for Iran's release of three American hikers, a Wall Street Journal report suggests the prisoner releases were also related to a private series of negotiations that paved the way for this month's nuclear agreement. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Taqiyya, Imam Madhi & the Iran deal

  by Ayman Ibrahim, posted Tuesday, July 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  The nuclear deal with Iran "naively ignores serious ideological Muslim Shiite beliefs," seminary professor Ayuman Ibrahim writes. Two key examples, Ibrahim notes, are a Shiite principle for concealing one's true beliefs (called taqiyya) and an apocalyptic expectation of a Shiite messiah. Read More

• Iran deal: persecuted church 'left behind'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, July 14, 2015 (9 years ago)

  VIENNA (BP) -- The nuclear deal struck by Iran and six world powers led by the United States has drawn criticism from evangelicals for its potential ill effects on Israel and persecuted Christians in the Persian nation. Read More