Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, a member of a Protestant evangelical church in the Islamic republic, faces death by hanging for refusing to abandon his Christian faith.The 34-year-old pastor of the Church of Iran was born a Muslim but became a Christian after his 19th birthday. Under Iran’s version of sharia law that makes him an apostate — Muslims cannot renounce the faith into which they were born.
“Repent means to return. What should I return to?” he asked. “To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?”
The pastor’s wife, who was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, was released on appeal.
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