UPDATE (TRS): Just broadcasting at noon on Sunday on Fox News is that Pastor Saeed Abedini has received a sentence of 8 years in Iran:

FOX NEWS – Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, an American imprisoned in Iran on charges of evangelizing, was sentenced this morning to eight years in prison.

According to the American Center for Law and Justice, Abedini was verbally sentenced in Tehran by Judge Pir-Abassi, known as the “hanging judge,” to eight years in prison for threatening the national security of Iran through his leadership in Christian house churches. He will serve the time in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, known as one of the most brutal.

The evidence, the ACLJ reports, was based on Abedini’s activities primarily during the early 2000s, when house churches were not considered a threat in Iran.

Jay Sekulow from the ACLJ says that 8 years in Iranian prison is basically a death sentence. He said it’s not like the Western world, but that they are unlikely to release him after 8 years.

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When I read things like this, I have to wonder what makes people go there in the first place...and especially for the reason he was there. Do they have a death wish?

Our pastor brought this brave young man up for prayer this morning.

He went to build an orphanage.

And now he is being tortured, beaten and imprisoned.

Please pray for him.

Quote: Just Ducky wrote in post #2

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When I read things like this, I have to wonder what makes people go there in the first place...and especially for the reason he was there. Do they have a death wish?

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