Luke 21:12 “But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
Franklin Graham released a statement marking the 10th month that American Pastor Saeed Abedini has been imprisoned in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison facing torture for being a Christian.
He’s also sharing that the pastor’s wife is feeling abandoned by the American government who has done nothing to free her husband. Naghmeh Abedini worries she and her two children will never see her husband again.
“She’s also discouraged by the fact that our own government seems to have abandoned them. President Obama has been silent on the issue as an American Christian endures the horrors of Evin Prison,” Graham said. “Pastor Saeed was in Iran trying to help children. With the permission of Iran’s government, he was working to build an orphanage. But his humanitarian mission led to an arrest on bogus charges and nearly a year of inhumane treatment simply because he loves Jesus Christ.”
The Iranian government claims that Abedini is a threat to national security and imprisoned him for 8 years.
We r praying w/inercessors nere and in our daily prayers for his release and for his wife and children