by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Feb 2023 | News
The 19th-century cathedral in Iskenderun is among the buildings to have collapsed. Iranian Christian refugees have been among those affected by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Iranian Christians reported to Article18 that their church buildings...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the first in a series of 12 articles by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz for being part of a house-church. In this first Note from Prison, Mojtaba talks about his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Feb 2023 | News
The wife of a pastor serving a six-year prison sentence for “propagating Christianity” now faces her own charges of “propaganda against the state” and “disturbing public opinion”. Anahita Khademi, who is married to Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, was informed of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Jan 2023 | News
The hundreds of Iranian Christian refugees stuck in countries like Turkey have been given fresh hope with the launch of a new sponsorship scheme in the US. Under the scheme, dubbed the “Welcome Corps” by the US State Department, US citizens or permanent residents will...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jan 2023 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (second from right) speaking at the European Parliament launch of the Open Doors World Watch List last week. The daughter of Iranian-Assyrian church leaders, who were forced to flee Iran after being sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison, has...
