by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 May 2019 | News
Only 48 hours after Article18 published news of the forced closure of a church in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the Assyrian representative to the Iranian parliament wrote an open letter to the President on Saturday, calling for it to be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Seyed-Hashem Bathaee (Shabestan.ir) A member of Iran’s Expediency Council of religious leaders appointed in an advisory capacity by the Supreme Leader has implied that Muslims who convert to Christianity are stupid, poor and easily manipulated. Seyed-Hashem Bathaee,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, which is a National Heritage site, and tore down the cross from the tower. The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern city of Tabriz has been left it a state of shock, after the Presbyterian church was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 May 2019 | News
Two Iranian converts have been informed that their jail sentences have been upheld, four months after their appeal hearing, reports Middle East Concern. Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie and Fatemeh (Aylar) Bakhtari were sentenced to 18 months and 12 months in prison,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 May 2019 | News
The UK’s immigration service has hired clerics to train its staff in religious literacy, following years of criticism that workers are ill-equipped to deal with the complex claims of converts and others claiming persecution on religious grounds. The issue came to...
