TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News) – An Iranian court has asked the pastor of one of Iran's largest house church movements to abandon his faith in Christ and return to Islam if he wants to avoid execution, a church official told Worthy News Sunday, September 25. On "the first day" of his trial pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, whose first name is also spelled as Yousef, was "asked by the judge…to recant his faith in order to avoid execution," said Firouz Khanjani, a council member of the Church of Iran movement. However the pastor's lawyer, human rights attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, told the court Sunday, September 25, that "this request was against the law and the constitution," Khanjani explained. Nadarkhani was sentenced to death by hanging for being an "apostate" to Islam in November 2010. His appeal against that ruling was rejected on June 27, 2011. Full Story>>
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