by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 May 2019 | News
UN General Assembly (Patrick Gruban / Flickr / CC) The UN General Assembly yesterday voted to adopt 22 August as the annual UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. The proposal, tabled by Poland, was adopted...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 May 2019 | News
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) Tony Perkins says it’s “absurd” that Christians in Iran “who practise their faith peacefully” face charges of acting against national security. The commissioner was speaking at an International Christian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 May 2019 | News
Only 48 hours after Article18 published news of the forced closure of a church in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the Assyrian representative to the Iranian parliament wrote an open letter to the President on Saturday, calling for it to be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Seyed-Hashem Bathaee (Shabestan.ir) A member of Iran’s Expediency Council of religious leaders appointed in an advisory capacity by the Supreme Leader has implied that Muslims who convert to Christianity are stupid, poor and easily manipulated. Seyed-Hashem Bathaee,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, which is a National Heritage site, and tore down the cross from the tower. The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern city of Tabriz has been left it a state of shock, after the Presbyterian church was...
