by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2026 | News
Guards have been posted in front of St Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran, the oldest Protestant church in Iran, a month after the church was seized, to prevent members from returning. The church’s leaders had been told that they had until 12 August to vacate the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2026 | Features
Doris Sadeghi, who died last year aged 95, travelled to Iran in 1955 to join the Ernst Christoffel school for the blind in Isfahan, and ended up staying for over 20 years. Below are some extracts from an interview she gave with the Christian Blind Mission (CBM), which...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2026 | News
A lawyer who has defended political prisoners including several Iranian Christians has been released on bail after over two months in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. Bahar Sahraian was released on Tuesday, 21 July, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jul 2026 | Features
This is the true story of a US missionary who travelled to Iran on a two-week tourist visa but ended up being detained for a further nine weeks in the country’s notorious Evin Prison, where he was threatened with the death sentence. Dan Baumann travelled to Iran in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jul 2026 | News
Iranian-born Church of England bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani was interviewed recently for a new podcast by the Speaker of the House of Lords. In the episode, which can be viewed in full here, the bishop spoke, among other things, about her upbringing in Iran; her...
