by designer | 13 Aug 2026 | Features
This obituary was first published by The Times newspaper and is republished here with kind permission. Ignoring an ultimatum to stop converting Iranian Muslims to Christianity, Edward Hovsepian-Mehr continued to preside over one of the fastest-growing churches in the...
by designer | 15 Dec 2025 | News
The US State Department has denounced the sentencing of five Iranian Christians to a combined over 50 years in prison. In a post on its Persian-language social media platforms on Thursday, the State Department said it “strongly condemns” Iran’s “repression of...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Kavian was sentenced to 10 years in prison following his arrest at a Christmas gathering in 2014. The Christian convert was held in solitary confinement for 23 days, and even his glasses were taken away from him. Kavian says the agents told him that if he...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Amid and Sanaz’s son Danial was just four years old when Ministry of Intelligence agents came to arrest his parents. Amid and Sanaz had converted to Christianity a few years earlier, and after the Persian-speaking church they had been attending was told it could...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Parsa’s father beat him and kicked him out of the house when he learned that he had converted to Christianity. He was also fired from his job. In 2015, Parsa and two of his Christian friends were finalising their plans for a new business venture together, when their...
