"Iran: convert awaits execution, refuses last chance to revert to Islam"

Snippet from Catholic Culture: Latest Headlines. Thursday, September 29, 2011.

"An Iranian Protestant pastor, sentenced to death in 2010 for apostasy, refused to renounce his Christian faith and revert to Islam during a third and final court hearing this week on September 28."

"A Washington Post blog reported that at one hearing..."

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"When asked to repent by the judges Yousef Nadarkhani stated, Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?

"The judges replied, To the religion of your ancestors, Islam.

"To which he replied, I cannot ...."