by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Mar 2023 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court has agreed that an ethnic Armenian pastor serving a 10-year prison sentence for holding church services in his home should be afforded a retrial. The ruling by the ninth branch of the Supreme Court, dated 25 February, was communicated to Joseph...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2023 | News
A church of huge significance for Iranian Christians is set to be sold by an organisation headed by Iran’s Supreme Leader. The Assemblies of God church in Gorgan, northeast Iran, has over the years been led by some of the most well-known Iranian pastors,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Mar 2023 | News
A fifth convert has been released as part of the mass pardoning of political prisoners, while there are reports two more may also have been freed, perhaps taking the total to as many as seven within the past month. Milad Goodarzi, who was nearly halfway through a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2023 | News
An Iranian pastor once sentenced to death for his “apostasy” has been “pardoned” and released after nearly five years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, but told he still faces flogging and two years’ exile 2,000km from his home. Yousef Nadarkhani, whose death sentence was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2023 | News
A third Christian convert was among the prisoners pardoned and released earlier this month, Article18 can now confirm. Mehdi Rokhparvar, who was serving a five-year sentence for “acting against national security” by “forming an illegal evangelical Christian group”,...
