Sources: BosNewsLife, Barnabas Fund An Iranian Christian couple has been punished by committing “apostasy,” underscoring concerns about widespread persecution of Christians in Iran, reported the advocacy group Barnabas Fund. Six officials, presumably from the nation’s “religious police,” visited the couple’s home in September to carry out the punishment. Their names were not released due to security concerns. “The husband is indeed a former Muslim, who became a Christian many years ago, but the wife was born into an Assyrian Christian family and has never been a Muslim,” Barnabas Fund stated. 
Seven years ago the couple married under Islamic Law because they could not find a church willing to marry them because of their different backgrounds. However, the Iranian court has said that “when non-Muslims marry under Islamic law they are considered to have converted to Islam.” In September 2005 the couple was part of a group of Christians arrested while worshiping in a home northwest of Tehran. When the couple’s case came to court this July, they apparently admitted they were Christians. “Because the law considered them Muslim, this led to the court’s ruling that they were both apostates from Islam, and hence the brutal punishment,” Barnabas Fund reported.
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