{"id":13833,"date":"2025-05-22T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:45:48","slug":"iran-three-christian-converts-summoned-to-serve-prison-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13833","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Three Christian Converts Summoned to Serve Prison Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Article 18, May 8, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Christian converts, including a woman pregnant with her first child, have been summoned to begin prison sentences totaling over 40 years on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narges Nasri, Abbas Soori, and Mehran Shamloui were sentenced in March, and their appeals were rejected in April, meaning they could be summoned to begin their sentences at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the three were told they had five days to submit themselves to Evin Prison to begin their sentences. Failure to do so would mean forfeiting bail equivalent to more than $20,000 each, and sources suggest they may now be out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three Christians were arrested in November last year during concurrent raids by intelligence agents on their homes in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articleeighteen.com\/news\/16028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meconcern.org\/2025\/05\/13\/iran-christian-converts-summoned-to-serve-prison-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A related story<\/a> from Middle East Concern adds some prayer points. Please pray that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God will strengthen and guide these converts in the decisions they will have to make,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Narges and her unborn baby will be protected through the stress they have endured, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those involved in the harassment and persecution of Christians will repent and come to faith in Jesus Christ themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On another and more encouraging note, see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godreports.com\/2025\/05\/two-thousand-iranians-turning-to-jesus-every-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Two Thousand Iranians Turning to Jesus Every Day<\/a> (Bible Society via God Reports).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another article from Article 18 reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forum18.org\/archive.php?article_id=2976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a religious freedom group in Belarus has been added to a list of extremist organizations<\/a>. Police also visited a leader\u2019s relatives and took DNA samples to help them track him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Article 18, May 8, 2025 Three Christian converts, including a woman pregnant with her first child, have been summoned to begin prison sentences totaling over 40 years on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings. Narges Nasri, Abbas Soori, and Mehran Shamloui were sentenced in March, and their appeals were rejected in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran: Three Christian Converts Summoned to Serve Prison Sentences<\/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-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","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=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13834,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}