This is a news flash taken from Farsi Christian News Network (www.fcnn.com)
Arrival of Vahik and Sonia in the Netherlands
According to FCNN correspondents in Europe, Pastor Vahik Abrahamian, after suffering in prison for almost a year in the city of Hamadan, Iran, left Tehran with his wife Sonia for exile in Holland in the early hours of Thursday, 15th September 2011.
The arrangements had been made with the approval of the Islamic Regime, and with the assistance of The Embassy of the Netherlands in Iran.
This Armenian-Iranian couple had originally been arrested in their own home in Hamadan on Saturday 4th September 2010, together with their house guests, by the Islamic Regime’s Ministry of State Security.
After many months of imprisonment, their case was presented in court and they were found innocent. Sonia, together with the other imprisoned couple, were released from prison on 30th April, 2011. However, and for as yet unknown reasons, Pastor Vahik continued to be held in prison until 29th August, 2011.
Vahik and Sonia have always expressed their desire to remain in Iran, and yet, because of the excessive intolerance of the hardliners, their conditions were such that to have continued in their service administering to the needy and social outcasts in their homeland would have put their lives in greater danger.
Vahik and Sonia are now free, and believers can now rejoice at their liberty and well being! They would like to express their gratitude to all the many Christians in countries around the world for their faithful prayers and messages of support. They also want to thank The Lord for His answer to their prayers, and praise their Heavenly Father with great joy.
