by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Feb 2012 | News
Two officially registered churches in Tehran have been told they can no longer conduct services in the Persian language, nor hold any meetings on Fridays – Iran’s day off. Emmanuel Protestant Church and St Peter’s Evangelical Church both received a letter on 10...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Dec 2011 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh, with his wife Shahnaz Jizan The pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Ahvaz has been detained, alongside his wife and two church members, following a raid on their Christmas celebration. Everyone present at the celebration was initially arrested,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Apr 2011 | News
Six converts from Islam have been acquitted of “apostasy”, “blasphemy” and “acting against national security” but sentenced to a year each in prison for “propaganda against the regime”. Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani. It had been feared that Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani, Parviz...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2011 | News
Some of the Christians currently detained in Iran. Scores of Christians in Tehran and other cities have been arrested at their homes in recent days as part of a mass operation by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Dec 2010 | News
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a convert from a Muslim background, has been sentenced to death for “apostasy”. Just one Christian leader has been executed for apostasy in Iran: Hossein Soodmand, who was hanged in Mashhad in December 1990. Yousef, who has been...
