by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Feb 2019 | News
Three converts from Islam standing in for the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani in leading services in their church in Rasht have been detained by officers from the Ministry of Intelligence. Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad was arrested on Sunday, 10 February,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Feb 2019 | News
Sixty-four-year-old Iranian Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has been released on bail after being charged with “propaganda against the state and insulting the sacred Iranian establishment”. Esmaeil, who was arrested on 25 January at his home in Shiraz, was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Jan 2019 | News
(Middle East Concern) A 61-year-old woman who converted to Christianity has been forced to visit an Islamic cleric to receive religious “instruction” and be offered the chance to revert to Islam. Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari has also been charged with “propaganda...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jan 2019 | News
An Iranian Christian convert sentenced last year to five years in prison for “membership of an evangelical group and conducting evangelism” has had his sentence reduced to two years. Majidreza Souzanchi, 35, has been in Evin Prison since his arrest on 17 November...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jan 2019 | News
An Iranian who converted to Christianity nearly 40 years ago was arrested in Shiraz on Friday morning by plainclothes officers claiming to be from the Ministry of Intelligence. Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad, 64, has been regularly harassed by Iran’s security forces since his...
