by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2023 | News
Iranian Christians continue to be among the most affected by the significant drop in refugee resettlement to the United States in recent years, according to a new report. Just 112 Iranian Christians were resettled to the US last year, 95 per cent fewer than 2016, the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2023 | News
As Iran’s president was flying to New York this morning, an Iranian-Armenian pastor was handing himself in to prison in Tehran to begin a 10-year sentence for engaging in “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”. Anooshavan Avedian, who is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Sep 2023 | News
Article18 has joined over 125 other Iranian Christian organisations and churches from 16 different countries in signing a joint statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. In the statement, the full text of which can be read...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Sep 2023 | News
Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has been “pardoned” and released after just over a year in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The 59-year-old was last year given a 10-year sentence for holding church services in his home, though this sentence was reduced to two years in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Sep 2023 | Features
It’s 10 years since Nasrin was arrested, but it has taken nearly all that time for her to recover and reach the point where she now feels able even to forgive those who mistreated her. Nasrin was one of six women converts to Christianity arrested in February 2013 and...
