by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Khalil Dehghanpour, Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar. Four Iranian converts have been summoned to begin their five-year jail sentences for leading house-churches, for which they were convicted of “acting against national security”....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 May 2020 | News
Fires have been reported at three sites belonging to religious minorities, including a Christian cemetery, in just a few days in Iran. First, on Friday, the director of antisemitism watchdog ADL, Jonathan Greeblatt, tweeted that the tomb of Biblical figures Queen...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 May 2020 | News
An Iranian Anglican Church member has been re-convicted of membership of a “Zionist Evangelical Christian” group “hostile to the regime”, and convicted of the additional charge of “propaganda against the state”. Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad, 65, was informed of the verdict...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 May 2020 | News
Ramin Hassanpour, his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, Moslem Rahimi and one other have been sent to Lakan Prison. Four Iranian converts have been sent to Lakan Prison in the northern city of Rasht, having been unable to afford the bail set for them. Moslem Rahimi, Ramin...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2020 | News
Twenty-one-year-old Iranian Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi has been sentenced to three months plus one day in prison, and ten lashes. The sentence relates to Mary’s alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations following the downing of a...
