Iranian Christian Released After Nearly Five Years Imprisonment for Starting Evangelical Group

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent (Worthy News) – An Iranian Christian man has been released from Iran’s notoriously harsh Evin prison after serving nearly half of the ten-year sentence he received for starting an illegal evangelical group, Church in Chains (CIC) reports. Ruled by an authoritarian extremist Islamic regime, Iran ranks 9 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted. A convert to Christ from Islam, Mehdi Akbari was relea