From the fall of 2012 through most of 2015,

Pastor Said Abadini and his wife, Nagme

were the public face of persecuted Christians.

Yet in November 2015, that all changed.

In a leaked email, Nagme told supporters

that she'd been abused by her husband. And suddenly, she went

from being the darling of the Christian community to an outcast. And she says those like Franklin

Graham and Jay Sekulow, who had long supported her, began pressuring her to make the accusations

go away. Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the

church. I'm Julie Roy's. And joining me today with her truly stunning story of being abused by her

husband and then shunned by the Christian community when she spoke of that abuse is Nagmei Panahi.

Nagme is the former wife of Pastor Saeed Abadini. And as you probably remember,

Pastor Saeed made international news in 2012 when he was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran

for evangelizing. And over the next three years, Nagme became a well-known advocate for Saeed.

She appeared regularly on Fox News and CNN and spoke at events

around the country. But as she'll explain, behind that advocacy was a secret history of physical,

sexual, and emotional abuse. And even though her husband was thousands of miles away, she says that

abuse continued online and by phone during his imprisonment.

Yet when Nagme opened up about that abuse, she didn't receive empathy and support from the Christian

community. Instead, she says she receives scorn. One Christian leader reportedly accused her of having

an affair, another told her to say publicly that she's mentally ill.

But Nagme refused, and now she's become an advocate for other abused women,

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