by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2021 | News
Fr Dominique Mathieu (centre) at his consecration service in Rome on 16 February, the feast day St Maruthas, patron saint of Iran. (Photo: www.ofmconv.net) Iran’s small Catholic community finally has a new archbishop. Fr Dominique Mathieu, 57, was consecrated last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Feb 2021 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. Mohammad Ali (Yasser) Mossayebzadeh, who was serving a 10-year sentence as a result of his membership of a house-church, has been granted conditional release from prison. It is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Feb 2021 | News
The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that the Iranian government is guilty of arbitrarily detaining Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and called for his immediate release. In a damning verdict, the working group found Iran guilty on four counts –...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2021 | News
A photograph of Ebrahim Firouzi, above the logo of the Hamgaam council of churches. The Council of United Iranian Churches (Hamgaam) has called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi, and “stop...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2021 | News
Hassan Rouhani (Photo: dolat.ir) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has signed into law two controversial amendments to the Penal Code, which it is feared will be used to further clamp down on unrecognised religious minorities, including Christian converts. The...
