First Interview With Saeed Abedini: Freed Pastor Prayed Without Ceasing in Prison
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Topic: First Interview With Saeed Abedini: Freed Pastor Prayed Without Ceasing in Prison
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Subject: First Interview With Saeed Abedini: Freed Pastor Prayed Without Ceasing in Prison
Date Posted: 01/26/2016 at 1:17pm
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First Interview With Saeed Abedini: Freed Pastor Prayed Without Ceasing in Prison
by Julie Brown Patton : Jan 26, 2016 : http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/61661/20160125/saeed-ab edini-christian-pastor-freed-from-iranian-prison-says-h e-pra yed-to-pass-endless-time.htm - The Gospel Herald
"The best thing I could do over there was pray." -Pastor Saeed Abedini
She went to North Carolina to interview him, where he is resting at the Billy Graham Training Center. He said one of his most distinct memories was when he was put in front of an Iranian judge, who asked him if he knew why he was there. "I said, ya, it was because of my Christian faith." The judge told Abedini he was there because he wanted to "use Christianity to remove government." In reality, Abedini had gone to Iran to start a secular, government-operated orphanage. Abedini said the most difficult part of being in jail was finding how to pass the countless hours. "When they sent me to the other solitary, which Amir Hekmati, the Marine, was over there," Abedini said. "They bound my eyes, they took me to his room, and up in there, I think, for almost 60 days with Amir." "First, when I removed my eye band, and I saw Amir, I got very heart-broken to see what they did to our Marine," Abedini said, explaining that Hekmati had black eyes, and he was... Click http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/61661/20160125/saeed-ab edini-christian-pastor-freed-from-iranian-prison-says-h e-prayed-to-pass-endless-time.htm - here to continue reading. http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/61661/20160125/saeed-ab edini-christian-pastor-freed-from-iranian-prison-says-h e-pra yed-to-pass-endless-time.htm - - Link> Watch Video |
(Asheville,
NC)—Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American who converted to Christianity
and was just freed from Iranian imprisonment after years of captivity
there under accusations that his faith undermined the Iran government,
granted his first and only interview to Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Monday. (Screengrab via Fox News/Gospel Herald) Replies:
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Date Posted: 01/28/2016 at 8:31am
Pastor Saeed Talks about Imprisonment, Says He Witnessed Others Executed for their Faith01-26-2016 - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&a mp;frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbn.com%2Fcbnnews%2F&ei=ba69UvTZHqmysASZ 7IDoDA&usg=AFQjCNEfex-5kYBXVFRrEHHf9eazHD2bpA&bvm=bv .58187178,d.cWc - - http://www1.cbn.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_xl_640x 480/public/cbnnews/FranklinGrahamSaeed_LW.jpg?itok=xlvVn3M9 The American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison is speaking out about his experience. Pastor Saeed Abedini told FoxNews' Greta Van Susteren about the moment he went before an Iranian judge on charges of setting up home churches in the Islamic nation. "He said you are here because you want to use Christianity to remove government and it was like no, I don't want to do that, I just came here to start an orphanage, loving people and share the gospel with people and just that," said Abedini. He said the judge yelled at him after saying he would pray for the judge. Abedini told Fox News that while in Tehran's Evin prison he was beaten by interrogators, was left with an al Qaeda prisoner who tried to kill him and was taken to watch several executions. "The worst thing that I saw was when they took some Sunnis for execution. … Most of them were Sunnis, some of them were political prisoners. … I can say most were executed for their faith," said Abedini. Abedini is at the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove for a time of recovery and readjustment. It is uncertain when his family will meet him there. Abedini's wife, Naghmeh, told Reuters last week the couple would work on their marriage. Before Abedini's release, Naghmeh sent out a message to supporters saying she would be taking some time away from the public eye to deal with emotional stress. She said she had faced physical, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse through her husbands addiction to pornography that started early in their marriage and got worse during his time in prison - they were able to speak at times by phone or by skype. After Naghmeh's initial email about the abuse, she said she regretted sending it. Since her husband's release she has written on her Facebook page that she believes God can redeem the entire situation, heal her marriage and use their experience to help others. "That's how God works. The worst things in our life turn out to be the best blessing," she wrote.
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Date Posted: 01/28/2016 at 8:39am
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Watch Facebook video of Arrival in North Carolina and reunion with family and Franklin Graham. Scroll down to it. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595277802 - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595277802 Edited by News Room on 01/28/2016 at 11:37am |