by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Dec 2024 | Reports
The Georgian immigration authorities consistently refuse the asylum claims of Iranian Christians, despite their well-founded fears of persecution should they return home. That is the conclusion of a new joint report by Article18, CSW, Open Doors and Middle East...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Nov 2024 | News
Pope Francis has said it is “a lie” to say the Catholic Church is opposed to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but that religious freedom is the “cornerstone” of human rights. The pope, speaking in Rome last Wednesday as the Vatican hosted a delegation...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2024 | News
Twelve Christian converts, including one currently detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were due to appear in court today in the northern city of Nowshahr after the prosecutor noted in his indictment that they had “identified themselves...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Nov 2024 | News
The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution yesterday expressing “serious concern” at “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief” in Iran. The resolution, which...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Nov 2024 | News
The exiled son of the former Shah of Iran has highlighted the “widespread and rampant persecution” of Christians and other religious minorities in the Islamic Republic. In a post on X yesterday, Reza Pahlavi said his country was “once a bastion of religious liberty....
