Iranian authorities have again arrested an Iranian pastor they
freed from a Tehran prison in September. Youcef Nadarkhani, 35, who
spent nearly three years in jail on apostasy charges, was
rearrested on Christmas Day and ordered to serve the remaining 45
days of a three-year prison sentence for evangelizing. The UN
estimates 60,000 killed in Syria as the civil war there nears its
two-year anniversary. The UN accounting in Syria is based on
reporting by seven organizations, and is up by
↧