by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Oct 2019 | News
Iranian Christian prisoner Yousef Nadarkhani yesterday brought an end to his 21-day hunger strike. Yousef, who is serving a ten-year sentence for his Christian activities, was protesting against his 15-year-old son Youeil being barred from school because he refused to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Oct 2019 | News
Sixty-two-year-old Christian convert Rokhsareh Ghanbari presented herself at Shahid Kachooei Prison in her home city of Karaj yesterday to begin a one-year jail sentence. Rokhsareh, who prefers to be known as Mahrokh, recorded a short video message before going to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Oct 2019 | News
Left to right: Yaghoob Nateghi, Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nourmohammadi and Shahab Shahi. Four converts have completed their jail sentences and returned home. A fifth member of the group remains in prison. Milad Goodarzi, Yaghoob Nateghi, Shahab Shahi and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Oct 2019 | News
Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is among nine Christians named in the list by USCIRF. Iranians account for over half of all the victims of religious freedom violations named in a new list by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The list, which does not...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Oct 2019 | News
US President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a ‘Protect Religious Freedom’ event in New York last month. (Twitter @SecPompeo) Pro-government media in Iran have launched a fresh propaganda drive in response to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Oct 2019 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (Twitter) Dabrina Bet-Tamraz says Christians in Iran are “seen as cooperating with America to take the throne from Iran”. “This is something they [the Iranian authorities] say,” said the daughter of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Sep 2019 | News
Yousef Nadarkhani with his two sons, Danial (right) and Youeil, before his incarceration. Christian prisoner Yousef Nadarkhani has gone on hunger strike to protest against his son being barred from school because he refused to take Islamic classes. Youeil, 15, was due...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Sep 2019 | News
Asghar Salehi (left) and Mohammed Reza Rezaei. Three converts to Christianity have been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the system through promoting Zionist Christianity”, reports Middle East Concern. Asghar Salehi, 43, Mohammad Reza Rezaei,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Sep 2019 | News
The daughter of an Iranian-Assyrian pastor facing ten years in prison for his Christian activities has called on the international community to “hold Iran accountable” and prioritise the “foundational human right” of religious freedom. “Every person has the right to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Churches and synagogues in Tehran are no longer tax exempt, according to a report from Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News. The Assyrian representative to the Iranian parliament, Yonathan Betkolia, criticised the move, saying churches...
