by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Field House in London, UK, where many asylum cases are decided. (Photo: righttoremain.org.uk) The question of how much weight should be given to the testimony of church members and leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Oct 2022 | News
An Iranian Anglican minister and his family, who had been threatened with deportation from Turkey, have now been safely resettled in the United States. Pastor Hekmat Salimi, his wife Mahindokht and their daughter Sama arrived in Atlanta late on Saturday night, after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2022 | Analysis
Embed from Getty Images An Iranian Christian convert who has been seeking asylum in Germany for four years has until today to accept his deportation or hand over his work license, after his final appeal – to the European Court of Human Rights – was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Feb 2022 | News
An Anglican minister who fled Iran six years ago because of constant harassment by intelligence agents and multiple arrests has now been told he is to be deported back to Iran from his city of temporary residence in Turkey. Pastor Hekmat Salimi, who is 72 years old...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | Reports
A new report by a Christian charity in Germany is highly critical of its immigration service for failing to recognise the testimony of pastors when considering the claims of asylum-seekers professing to be Christian converts, the majority of whom are Iranian....
