LA pastor on hunger strike to protest ICE’s detainment of Iranian Christians

LA pastor on hunger strike to protest ICE’s detainment of Iranian Christians

WASHINGTON (RNS) — About a month ago, Pastor Ara Torosian received a frantic call from one of his congregants in Los Angeles. Armed authorities were at her door and trying to arrest her and her husband. He quickly rushed over to a scene that he described as akin to incidents in his native Iran.  The armed police were not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps but United States Border Patrol federal agents. The congregants had fled Iran for the U.…