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IRAN THREATENS CHURCH WITH BOMBING
Worthy News
http://www.worthynews.com/11372-iran-threatens-church-with-bombing
March 30 2012
TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)- Another church in Tehran was ordered
to cease holding services in Farsi, the Iranian national language,
otherwise it could be "bombed".
According to Barnabas Aid, ministers from an Iranian interior
department dealing with interfaith matters served notice to the
Armenian Anglican Church, unofficially threatening that if the order
is ignored, the church will be bombed "as happens in Iraq every day".
This latest threat comes after both Emmanuel Protestant and St. Peter
Evangelical churches were ordered to stop holding services in Farsi
on Fridays, which falls on the weekend in Iran where Sunday is just
another work day.
"It now seems likely that the Islamic authorities have imagined that
with this new restriction they will somehow hold back the rapid,
and evidently extremely worrying, spread of Christianity amongst the
people under their yoke," according to a report by the Farsi Christian
News Network.
Iranian security agents have been arresting Christians in a
country-wide crackdown since Christmas.
Worthy News
http://www.worthynews.com/11372-iran-threatens-church-with-bombing
March 30 2012
TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)- Another church in Tehran was ordered
to cease holding services in Farsi, the Iranian national language,
otherwise it could be "bombed".
According to Barnabas Aid, ministers from an Iranian interior
department dealing with interfaith matters served notice to the
Armenian Anglican Church, unofficially threatening that if the order
is ignored, the church will be bombed "as happens in Iraq every day".
This latest threat comes after both Emmanuel Protestant and St. Peter
Evangelical churches were ordered to stop holding services in Farsi
on Fridays, which falls on the weekend in Iran where Sunday is just
another work day.
"It now seems likely that the Islamic authorities have imagined that
with this new restriction they will somehow hold back the rapid,
and evidently extremely worrying, spread of Christianity amongst the
people under their yoke," according to a report by the Farsi Christian
News Network.
Iranian security agents have been arresting Christians in a
country-wide crackdown since Christmas.