by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi, and Habib Heydari Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, which is a National Heritage site, and tore down the cross from the tower. The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern city of Tabriz has been left it a state of shock, after the Presbyterian church was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 May 2019 | News
Two Iranian converts have been informed that their jail sentences have been upheld, four months after their appeal hearing, reports Middle East Concern. Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie and Fatemeh (Aylar) Bakhtari were sentenced to 18 months and 12 months in prison,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Apr 2019 | News
Left to right: Shapoor Jozi, Parastou Zariftash, and Payam Kharaman Sixteen converts to Christianity in the southwestern city of Bushehr are facing time in prison after their convictions were upheld at an appeal hearing last month. Twelve have been sentenced to a year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Mar 2019 | News
Seven of the nine “Church of Iran” members arrested this year in Rasht have been released on bail, but two remain detained. L to R: Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Khalil Dehghanpour, and Hossein Kadivar (Middle East Concern) Babak Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Khatibi,...
