Is that name standing alone an invective, just a name, the invocation of Lord God or the name one must denounce in order to be granted life? What, you say? Denounce Jesus in order to have life. Why that is sacrilege, one must accept Jesus Christ in order to have life. Well.....not in Iran.
TEHRAN — Iran's supreme court has overturned a death sentence handed down to Yusef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor accused of apostasy for having converted from Islam, his lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
"The supreme court has annuled the death sentence and sent the case back to the court in Rasht (his hometown), asking the accused to repent," Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said.
Nadarkhani, now 32, converted from Islam to Christianity at the age of 19 and became a pastor of a small evangelical community called the Church of Iran.
He was arrested in October 2009 and condemned to death for apostasy under Iran's Islamic Sharia laws, which however allow for such verdicts to be overturned if the convicted person "repents" and renounces his conversion. [AFP]
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