by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jan 2022 | News
Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji (left) and his brother Mansour. Two brothers remain missing more than a month after their arrest at a Christmas gathering near Isfahan. Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji, 53, and his brother Mansour, 46, were with around eight other Christians at a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2022 | News
Habib Heydari (left) and Sasan Khosravi. Two Christian converts have been released from prison at the conclusion of their one-year prison sentences for belonging to a house-church, but one of them now faces two years’ exile. Sasan Khosravi, who is 36 years old, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jan 2022 | News
It was on this day 28 years ago that one of Iran’s most senior Protestant church leaders, ethnic Armenian Christian Haik Hovsepian, disappeared, later to be found stabbed to death. Nearly three decades on, and although the killing of senior Christian figures in Iran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2022 | News
Just two weeks after the release on bail of nine Christian converts, pending a review of their case ordered by Iran’s Supreme Court, one of them is already back in prison – thanks to a ruling by a different branch of that same Supreme Court. Abdolreza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Jan 2022 | News
St Luke’s Anglican Church in Isfahan, one of just four Persian-speaking churches still permitted to operate inside Iran, but not allowed to take on new members. Iranian-speaking churches in the diaspora have added their voice to the call for Persian-speaking...
