by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2020 | News
The bishop’s house in Isfahan – once the seat of the Anglican Church in Iran – was confiscated by an Islamic Revolutionary Court judge on 6 November 1979, nine months after the revolution that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power at the head of a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Sep 2020 | News
Youhan Omidi with his wife Maryam and daughters Sara and Sandra. Today, four weeks after leaving prison, Iranian convert Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi journeyed south to begin his exile more than 1,000km from his home and family. Youhan, who completed his two-year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2020 | News
Left to right: Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Three Iranian Christian converts whose appeals against a combined 35 years in prison were recently rejected want to let their supporters know they are safe and well outside the country. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Aug 2020 | News
Iranian-Armenian Christian Joseph Shahbazian has been released on bail after nearly two months in detention. The 56-year-old was one of dozens of Christians arrested by Revolutionary Guards in a coordinated operation targeting homes and house-churches in Tehran, Karaj...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Aug 2020 | News
The wife and son of an Iranian-Armenian Christian who remains in detention seven weeks after his arrest were able to visit him for the first time on Tuesday. Joseph Shahbazian was said to be in good health, though unshaven and therefore scruffier than usual in...
