{"id":32506,"date":"2012-05-14T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/iranian_officials_heighten_control_on_farsi-speaking_church\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:58:09","slug":"iranian_officials_heighten_control_on_farsi-speaking_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32506","title":{"rendered":"(CDN) Iranian Officials Heighten Control on Farsi-Speaking Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the Assemblies of God\u2019s (AG) Central Church of Tehran told its congregation on May 6 that authorities have demanded a list of names and identification numbers of church members, a major risk to converts from Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Church leaders then asked members in attendance to volunteer their information. The AG church holds two Sunday services, both conducted in Farsi. It is the only church remaining in Tehran that offers Farsi-language worship on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [government move] is basically to make sure the church is not taking in new members and to make it difficult and risky for non-Christians to attend,\u201d\u009d Monsour Borji, an Iranian Christian and advocacy officer for rights initiative Article 18, told Compass. \u201cIt is an effort to limit the church, basically.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/world\/33399-iranian-officials-heighten-control-on-farsi-speaking-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the Assemblies of God\u2019s (AG) Central Church of Tehran told its congregation on May 6 that authorities have demanded a list of names and identification numbers of church members, a major risk to converts from Islam. Church leaders<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32506\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,564,114,203,154,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-iran","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}