by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Mar 2023 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court has agreed that an ethnic Armenian pastor serving a 10-year prison sentence for holding church services in his home should be afforded a retrial. The ruling by the ninth branch of the Supreme Court, dated 25 February, was communicated to Joseph...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2023 | News
A church of huge significance for Iranian Christians is set to be sold by an organisation headed by Iran’s Supreme Leader. The Assemblies of God church in Gorgan, northeast Iran, has over the years been led by some of the most well-known Iranian pastors,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Mar 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the sixth in a series of articles by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Mar 2023 | News
Photo: Shafeghna A prominent Shia cleric has bemoaned how the younger generation of Iranians are leaving Shia Islam for other faiths, including Christianity, and said he views it as his responsibility to “bring them back”. Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Javad Alavi...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2023 | Features
Shadi Noveiri was strip-searched multiple times during her 40 days in detention, an experience she describes as “absolutely humiliating and I believe illegal”. The Christian convert, who turned 25 during her incarceration, was subjected to the search each time she was...
