by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Feb 2021 | News
Photo: Mission Network News Eleven Christian couples from a city just outside Tehran have been ordered by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence to sign commitments to refrain from meeting together – either in person or online. After refusing, the Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Feb 2021 | News
In a year dominated by Covid-19, Iran still found time to persecute Christians in 2020, Article18’s annual report reveals. The report, published today in collaboration with Middle East Concern, Open Doors, and CSW, shows that 15 Christians were being held in Tehran’s...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Feb 2021 | Reports
In a year dominated by Covid-19, Iran still found time to persecute Christians in 2020, Article18’s annual report reveals. The report, published today in collaboration with Middle East Concern, Open Doors, and CSW, shows that 15 Christians were being held in Tehran’s...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Feb 2021 | News
Habib Heydari (left), and brothers Sam (centre) and Sasan Khosravi. An appeals court in the southwestern Iranian city of Bushehr has upheld the one-year prison sentences given to three Christian converts for “propagating against the Islamic Republic through promoting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Jan 2021 | News
There are currently at least 15 Christians in prison in Iran for alleged ‘actions against national security’. An Iranian news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guard Corps has reported the arrest of a “network” of Christians in “several provinces” for...