by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Sep 2024 | News
Embed from Getty Images The Iranian authorities’ “systematic” and “targeted” dissemination of disinformation about religious minorities, including Christians, has been highlighted in a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Aug 2024 | News
The case files of over 300 Christians who faced charges related to their faith and religious activities are among the over 3 million prosecutions leaked by hackers of the Tehran judiciary’s website over the past six months, a study by Article18 has revealed. The data,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Aug 2024 | Features
Of all the examples in the leaked Edaalate Ali files pertaining to Christians, one case stands out: that of a dual national by the name of Alexander B, who at nearly 80 years old was sentenced to five years in prison for attending a house-church. The court documents...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2024 | News
One of the eight Christian converts recently sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison for their involvement in house-churches has died in a road traffic accident. Bijan Gholizadeh, who was a father to three daughters, was killed on Saturday, 24 August, while driving...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2024 | Features
Maryam Jalili was 40 years old when she became a Christian, and by then had already been through so much. At the age of just 17, Maryam’s firstborn son, who had been born in the year of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, died after contracting meningitis. Then, while...
