by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jun 2023 | Features
When he was arrested, Vahid Hakani told his interrogator he hadn’t known until that day “that gathering and worshipping and praying in the name of Christ is not legal in Iran”. His interrogator wanted him to confess that he was part of a “deviant Christian sect”, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 May 2023 | News
In the week of the 10th anniversary of the forced closure of the largest Persian-speaking church in Iran, the Islamic Republic’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism has had the temerity to claim that “the people of the world should know” that...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2023 | News
British-Iranian bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani has called on the UK government to consider offering a “safe-route scheme” for Iranians fleeing persecution on account of their faith. In an oral question at the UK House of Lords this afternoon, Bishop Guli cited...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 May 2023 | News
This Sunday will be the 10th anniversary of the forced closure of the largest Persian-speaking church in Iran, the Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran. The once-thriving church, built in the 1970s and re-registered in 1980 after the establishment of the Islamic...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2023 | News
A 64-year-old Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been acquitted and released from their combined 10-year prison sentence. Homayoun Zhaveh, whose health has deteriorated while in prison, and his wife Sara Ahmadi had been detained in...
