Tag: Iran

One Year Today

Today is the one year anniversary of American Saeed Abedini’s imprisonment in Iran. People are gathering at their state capitols and churches to pray for his release. Saeed’s wife has written this piece about what their family is going through: One year of abuse. One year of absence.

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Understanding the Middle East

Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of Barnabas Aid, has written a fantastic, easy to read article entitled Making Sense of the Tumultuous Events in the Middle East. While the American media loves to talk about the Middle East and offer opinions about events there, it rarely takes the time to explain the nuts and bolts […]

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Caprica is Burning

Fans of the Battlestar Galactica reboot will know exactly what I’m referencing in the title of this post: I’ve never seen a more poignant depiction of nuclear war than in that series. Tonight sources say that North Korea has missiles pointed at us and Iran could be just weeks away from having a bomb (especially if […]

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Stand Up for Saeed!

Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned for his faith in Iran in violation of their laws, our laws, and multiple human rights treaties, is being tortured. They might hang him.  Think about that. While most of us are sitting at home in a nice, comfortable chair leisurely browsing the web, one of our own is […]

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Iran: Free Saeed Abedini!

An American was just sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison and it’s been nearly a week since his location was accounted for. Pastor Saeed Abedini was arrested for his Christian beliefs and thrown in prison last September– Iran considers him an enemy of the state for his Christian evangelism, which was conducted primarily […]

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