Our family is following developments in the story of Iranian American pastor, Saeed Abedini. Abedini, a former Muslim, is currently serving an eight year sentence in a harsh Iranian prison for his role in running underground house churches where Christian believers gathered to worship. He was arrested in 2012 while working to build an orphanage in an Iranian town. We learn more about Pastor ...

Fourteen years ago, my father died suddenly and I was devastated. Sad. Confused. Frightened. The twenty-seven years of peace I had previously enjoyed and often taken for granted, came to a screeching halt. And in the years that followed, I secretly worried about losing someone else close to me. Would a police officer come to my door and inform me that my husband had died in a freak accident? Would ...