IRANIAN CHRISTIAN PASTOR IN DANGER OF EXECUTION FOR HIS FAITH

As I write these words a fellow Christian in Iran could be hours away from execution for his faith. Pastor Yousef Nadarkani is in serious and imminent danger of being hanged because he refuses to renounce his faith in Jesus Christ. Yousef is in prison on Islamic charges of apostasy; he has been given an ultimatum: Turn away from his Christian faith and return to Islam or die. He has refused to renounce his faith. 

I ask readers of this blog who live in democratic countries to ask their elected representatives to appeal to Iranian officials to spare Pastor Yousef Nadarkani and release him to his family. Everyone please pray that his life is spared.

For news coverage see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRRYi2O6uM&feature=player_embedded#at=82 
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ajlhG1D5XWc

Iran is a member of the United Nations. Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."

Article 19 states:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."  

Iran must be expected as a U.N. Member Nation to abide by the human rights Declaration it apparently agreed to. The last I heard, Christians fall under UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Member Nations must abide by it. Otherwise, what is the point of Human Rights if they do not actually apply to people's lives?
Mark