(Morning Star News) A appeals court in Iran last week denied a Christian couple custody of their adopted daughter after they faced criminal charges for their faith.
Sam Khosravi and Maryam Falahi, converts from Islam, had adopted 3-month-old Lydia from an orphanage in February 2019. Before a welfare organization finalized the adoption, government security agents arrested them in July 2019 in a raid of their home in Bushehr in southwest Iran.
In the same raid, six other Christian converts in the city were also arrested in their homes, according advocacy organi