Naghmeh Abedini on Saeed’s Imprisonment: God Counted Us Worthy Enough

By: American Decency Staff

Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of pastor Saeed Abedini who is serving eight years in prison in Iran for his Christian faith, has said that God has chosen her family and her husband for the ordeal they are going through in order to reach people in despair.

"The Lord has counted our family worthy enough to send Saeed to a dark place that he would be able to share with people who are in complete despair," Abedini said in a testimony to persecution watchdog group International Christian Concern in its April 2014 magazine.

She told the watchdog that while in prison, her husband has seen "so many give their hearts to Christ."

The pastor, who was arrested in Iran in July 2012 while working on an orphanage project, was tried and sentenced to eight years in prison for "threatening the national security."

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