by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 May 2024 | News
A pastor serving a six-year sentence in a prison 1,000 miles from his wife and daughter has been told he will no longer be permitted to return home to visit them each month. Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias, has been serving a six-year sentence for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2024 | News
A Christian convert and former asylum-seeker serving a two-year sentence in Evin Prison for “connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations” is struggling with her mental health and in need of professional help, her mother says. According to the Persian-language...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 May 2024 | News
This article was first published in 1993 by News Network International and is republished here with kind permission. Several Iranian Protestant churches flatly refused to comply with government ultimatums issued in June [1993], requiring churches to limit evangelistic...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 May 2024 | Explainers
“Christians have 380 churches,” Iranian-Armenian MP Ara Shaverdian told the UN Human Rights Committee in October 2023. What the MP did not explain, however, is that not everybody is permitted to attend these churches, nor are they permitted to preach in the national...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 May 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested on Christmas Eve has been released on bail equivalent to more than $10,000 after over four months in detention. Esmaeil Narimanpour, 37, who was previously forced to undergo religious “re-education” with a Muslim cleric, was released on...
