by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jan 2025 | News
Iran remains among the world’s most “extreme” persecutors of Christians, according to the annual report of Article18’s partner organisation Open Doors. Iran’s “score” of 86/100 places it 9th on the 2025 World Watch List of the top 50 countries where Christians are...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2025 | Features
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding by a German Protestant pastor of Iran’s first school for the blind. Ernst Jakob Christoffel, who became known in Iran as the “German father of the blind”, made the Braille alphabet accessible to Persians and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2025 | News
The head of Iran’s judiciary has boasted about the decision to provide Christian prisoners with five days leave over Christmas, neglecting to mention that in excess of 40 Christians were arrested for participating in Christmas celebrations in December, while at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jan 2025 | News
A Catholic convert arrested after protesting against her mistreatment by the Iranian authorities has been released after two months in Evin Prison, but faces a further four months behind bars and 74 lashes if any further “offence” is committed within the next five...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian pastor who has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2006 was released from his latest long incarceration on account of his religious beliefs and practices on Saturday. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias and will celebrate his...
