by Mansour Borji | 24 Dec 2024 | News
A house-church member from the northern city of Rasht has been released after completing a two-and-a-half-year sentence for his peaceful religious activities. Morteza Mashhoodkari, along with two other members of the “Church of Iran”, Ahmad (Youḥanna)...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian pastor who has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2006 was released from his latest long incarceration on account of his religious beliefs and practices on Saturday. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias and will celebrate his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian Christian convert detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last month has been released on bail. Javad Amini was arrested on 17 November and released on 27 November, the day after he and 11 other Christians from Nowshahr, north...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2024 | News
Twelve Christian converts, including one currently detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were due to appear in court today in the northern city of Nowshahr after the prosecutor noted in his indictment that they had “identified themselves...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Nov 2024 | News
A Christian convert has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges including engaging in “propaganda” by “propagating Christianity”, an Iranian Christian news site has reported. The convert, Toomaj Aryan-Kia, was also convicted of “collaborating” with the...
