by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2023 | Reports
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 | 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...
