{"id":34461,"date":"2012-09-08T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/iranian_pastor_nadarkhani_acquitted_freed\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:00:29","slug":"iranian_pastor_nadarkhani_acquitted_freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34461","title":{"rendered":"(BP) Iranian pastor Nadarkhani acquitted, freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been acquitted of apostasy and released, ending a saga that drew international attention and saw him spend more than 1,000 days in jail in the face of a death sentence &#8212; simply for being a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported Saturday (Sept. 8) that Nadarkhani, in jail since 2009, was acquitted of apostasy &#8212; that is, converting from Islam to Christianity &#8212; but found guilty of evangelizing Muslims. CSW said Nadarkhani was sentenced to three years in prison for that latter charge, but released due to time already served. Nadarkhani said he never was a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/BPnews.asp?ID=38680\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been acquitted of apostasy and released, ending a saga that drew international attention and saw him spend more than 1,000 days in jail in the face of a death sentence &#8212; simply for being a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34461\">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":[48,39,40,50,144,564,114,203,177,151,108,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461","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=34461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}