Source: Article18, March 10, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three Christian converts, including a woman pregnant with her first child, have been sentenced to over 40 years in prison on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbas Soori, Mehran Shamloui, and Narges Nasri, who is approximately halfway through her pregnancy, were sentenced by notorious Revolutionary Court judge Iman Afshari on March 8\u2014International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Narges, who is 37 years old, received the stiffest sentence\u201410 years for \u201cpropaganda activities contrary to Islamic law,\u201d five for membership of an \u201copposition group\u201d (house church) and an additional year for \u201cpropaganda against the state\u201d for having posted on social media in support of the Women, Life, Freedom movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Article18<\/a> is dedicated to the protection and promotion of religious freedom in Iran and advocating on behalf of its persecuted Christians; explore their site for more stories on these topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Feeding the Underground Churches of Iran<\/a> (Back to Jerusalem).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Article18, March 10, 2025 Three Christian converts, including a woman pregnant with her first child, have been sentenced to over 40 years in prison on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings. Abbas Soori, Mehran Shamloui, and Narges Nasri, who is approximately halfway through her pregnancy, were sentenced by notorious Revolutionary Court … Continue reading Iran: Three Believers Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}