Eleven Iranian Christians who fled their homeland for fear of the government have received threatening emails calling on them to renounce Christianity and return to Shi'ite Islam -- or be killed.
The emails were from "the unknown soldiers of the Hidden Imam," but are believed to have come from the Iranian security services. The "Hidden Imam" is the Shi'ite Messiah. Shi'ites in the "Twelver" sect, believe that Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdi, born July 29, 869, will return to earth as the...
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