[ April 24, 2024 ]
Iran sentenced a couple to prison for the crime of practicing Christianity — and sentenced each and every member of the couple’s congregation to the same fate, for the same reason.
Islam tolerates no freedom of religion, no freedom of thought.
Yet this is the preferred religion of many of the left — even those who say they are staunch defenders of the rights of women, the rights of gays, the rights as contained in the Constitution?
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From the Jerusalem Post:
The Islamic regime in Tehran has sentenced an Iranian couple to a prison term for merely practicing Christianity.
Article 18, an organization that promotes religious freedom and supports Iran’s repressed Christians through documentation and advocacy, tweeted on Thursday that “A Christian couple have reported that a court in Boushehr has just sentenced them & 10 other Iranian Christians to one year in prison each for ‘Propagating against the Islamic Republic in favor of Christianity.’ This group of Christian converts were arrested on April 7th, 2015.”
Christian news website Mohabat News reported on Wednesday that the Iranian couple cited by Article 18, who were part of the group of converts, were charged with “orientation toward the land of Christianity.”
Jeff King, the president of Washington, DC-based International Christian Concern, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that each member of the congregation was sentenced to a year in prison.
“Getting information on the arrests of Christians is incredibly challenging given the heavily censored nature of Iran,” King said. “But based on the cases we have been tracking, this is the first time this year that we’ve seen a jail sentence being given based on the charge of ‘inclination to the land of Christianity.’ This could be interpreted as a reference to Israel, the birthplace of Christianity and also a country that Iran has adopted a very aggressive stance towards.”
While Christianity is legally recognized in the Islamic Republic, the US State Department has classified Iran as a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 “for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
The Islamic Republic’s constitution, which is rooted in fundamentalist Sharia, states that Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians (excluding converts from Islam), can worship “within the limits of the law.”
The World Christian Database statistic said there are an estimated 350,000 Christians in Iran.
Iran’s regime says 117,700 Christians live in the country. Iran has a population of more than 80.2 million people.
“Iran does not discriminate against or persecute any recognized religious minority,” said Alireza Miryousefi, head of press for the Iranian Mission to the UN. “Including the large Christian community inside Iran, who are free to worship in the many churches that can be found across Iran. In fact, as is the case with Iranian Jews, Iranian Christians are constitutionally guaranteed parliamentary representation. Major cities such as Tehran and Isfahan are home to large Christian communities with centuries-old churches.”
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7 Comments
5 years ago
And the Pope shills for bringing in more of these into christian lands http://tinyurl.com/popeofwolves
while he lives behind secure 40 ft walls and 24 hour security !
5 years ago
We need Muslims on this planet like we need a rat plague or ebola. Meanwhile the rest of the world goes on completely oblivious to the miseries that Muslims foist on anyone near them.
I’m afraid like Nazism, no one is going to give a damn until Muslims start killing people by the millions. Till then they’ll just ignore all the hate, rape, terrorism, destruction of our freedom, violence that muslims bring to non-Muslims.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
They are already killing by the thousands. Once the training is complete they move to millions
5 years ago
Lying, stealing, Iranian muslum to me re: the treatment of Christians in the Iranian Repugnant some 6 years ago:
“Christians are treated better than anyone.”
5 years ago
Persia would be so different today had they decided to embrace Christianity instead of Islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Iran has not embraced Islam. It was imposed by Islamic conquest and invasion.
5 years ago
I denounce this Pope he is not my Pope he has done nothing but undermine the traditional faith of millions of Catholics.Putin was right when he said “This Pope is not a man of God”.He is a traitor to Catholics everywhere.As if Islam wasn’t bad enough now him.Anyway why does it surprise anyone that the left prefers Islam it is a totalitarian religion ,so much easier to absorb into totalitarian regime when it comes and that is what they are aiming at. Or so it seems to me!
