by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jan 2014 | News
Shahnaz Jizan, the wife of Ahvaz Assemblies of God Church pastor Farhad Sabokrooh, was released from prison today. The couple were first detained during a Christmas celebration at their church in December 2011, when every member of the church was arrested. Most were...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Jan 2014 | News
Ahvaz Assemblies of God church member Davoud Alijani has been released after 257 days in Karoun Prison. Davoud was arrested during a Christmas celebration in December 2011, alongside all other members of his Ahvaz church. Most were released after being interrogated...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jan 2014 | News
Four Christian converts – Sara Rahimi Nejad, Majid Sheidaei, Mostafa Nadri and George Issaian – were arrested by plainclothes security officers in Fardis, Karaj on New Year’s Eve, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2014 | News
Christian convert Hossein Saketi Aramsari has been sentenced to one year in prison for “promoting Christianity”. Hossein, who is known as Stephen, was first arrested by Ministry of Intelligence agents on 23 July 2013 in the Golestan Jungle, according to HRANA. He was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Jan 2014 | News
St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran has been forced to ban Persian-speaking Christians from its services. Pastor Sergis Benjamin, speaking ahead of Christmas, urged Persian speakers to no longer visit the church. But with only a few Assyrian and Armenian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Dec 2013 | News
Five Christians were arrested as they celebrated Christmas together on Christmas Eve at a “house church” in eastern Tehran. Ahmad Bazyar, Faegheh Nasrollahi, Mastaneh Rastegari, Amir Hossein Nematollahi were arrested at the home of a man only identified as an engineer...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Dec 2013 | News
Christian prisoner Farshid Fathi has published a letter from Evin Prison on the third anniversary of his arrest, saying he is celebrating Christmas in prison with “unexplainable joy”. Farshid was arrested in December 2010 in Tehran. After months of uncertainty...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Dec 2013 | News
Christian convert Rasoul Abdollahi has been taken to Ward 350 in Tehran’s Evin Prison to begin his three-year prison sentence for “gathering and colluding and promoting Christianity”. Rasoul was one of dozens of Christians arrested by security forces across Iran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Dec 2013 | News
Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced Vruir Avanessian, retired pastor of the Assemblies of God Church, to three and a half years in prison. He was given 20 days to file an appeal. The Revolutionary Court also barred the retired reverend...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2013 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh, pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Ahvaz, and church member Nasser Zamen-Dezfuli have been released from Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison after 214 days. Two years ago, security forces had arrested all those present at a church Christmas celebration....
