US Demands Iran Free Catholic Convert Jailed 10 Years for Her Faith

The U.S. State Department has called for Iran's immediate release of all wrongfully detained prisoners, including Ghazal Marzban, a Catholic convert sentenced to nearly 10 years in Evin Prison for 'propaganda against the state' — effectively for owning a Bible. Iran's systematic imprisonment of Christian converts fulfils Jesus' explicit warning that believers would be handed over to authorities and persecuted for His name's sake. Revelation 20:4 speaks of those who are martyred for their witness to Jesus, and Matthew 24:9 warns directly: 'You will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.'