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| Iranian Moslems Debate With Iranian Christians About Religion |
| 2006-10-06 |
| From Compass Direct After nine days in secret police custody, Reza Montazami and his wife, Fereshteh Dibaj, were released on bail this morning by order of a Revolutionary Court in Mashhad, Iran. ... [His] parents were required to turn over the title deed for property worth $25,000 on bond. Within hours, Montazami and his wife, leaders of an independent house church in Mashhad, were released by police officials and allowed to return home. .... Two days ago, Montazami’s parents were ordered to sign a document promising that no more Christian meetings for worship, prayer or Bible study would be held in the couple’s home. Their apartment is owned by Montazami’s mother. It is not known whether Montazami and his wife also were required to sign a similar pledge as a condition for their release. In similar cases in recent months against Iranian Christians subjected to arrest and interrogations, those released have been restricted to virtual house arrest or ordered to stay within their city limits. Prior to their arrest, Montazami and his wife led an independent house church in Mashhad, the capital of the northeastern province of Khorasan. .... The couple had been arrested at their home on the morning of September 26, when police searched the premises and confiscated their computers and all Christian materials they found. .... After searching for hours on the day of their arrest, the couple’s family finally confirmed that they were being held by the intelligence branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Relatives who attempted daily to learn the reason for the couple’s arrest were reportedly rebuffed by police and judicial authorities, who said that such information concerned only investigators pursuing the case. .... From a well-known Mashhad family, Montazami, 35, had converted to Christianity in his 20s. His wife Fereshteh is the youngest daughter of the Rev. Mehdi Dibaj, a Protestant pastor martyred for his faith in 1994. After nine years in prison, her father was given the death penalty for “apostasy” – leaving Islam. Six months after international protests prompted his release, he was abducted and killed. .... |
| Posted by:Thrineque Glorong3348 |
| #9 Oh goody, Mikey and Jihad Unspun back. The Eternal Golden Braid of pointless prosaic palevorous niggling nongermane nonsensical nitwit nitpicking hypercritical hairsplitting hoary hackneyed tenuous tedious treadmill threads returns. I can't wait to have a day's worth of someone's posts collected into a mishmash and reposted as "proof" of something or other only visible to the dreary dean of dolts. A sure sign the End Times are upon us. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-06 19:45 |
| #8 gee, #2 mike - i'm sorry you lost your cookies. feeling better now? ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-06 19:13 |
| #7 Welcome back, Mike Sylwester. I'm glad you found your cookie. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-06 17:59 |
| #6 Par for the course unfortunately. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-10-06 10:31 |
| #5 His wife Fereshteh is the youngest daughter of the Rev. Mehdi Dibaj, a Protestant pastor martyred for his faith in 1994. Wha? How did this news get out of the Middle East, without using their term for "martyr," that being what we'd call "murder" in the West? My surprise meter must be broken. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-10-06 09:59 |
| #4 Terrible Christian persecution happens on a daily basis throughout the world. The MSM has always ignored it. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-10-06 09:16 |
| #3 "Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth." Heb. 11:36-38 |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-10-06 08:45 |
| #2 I posted today's articles with my true name Mike Sylwester, but they appear with the name Thrineque Glorong3348. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2006-10-06 08:45 |
| #1 Compass Direct and Jihad Unspun, just like olde times. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-10-06 07:37 |