by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Dec 2018 | News
A 64-year-old convert to Christianity who failed to come home from a visit to a “house church” in Hashtgerd on 30 November has spent the last two weeks in Karaj’s Rajaei-Shahr Prison. Jamshid Derakhshan, who has been a Christian for 30 years, called home...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Dec 2018 | News
At least 114 Christians have been arrested in the past week following a series of raids in nine different cities across Iran. Most of those arrested were released after a few hours, but only after they had written down details of their Christian activities and been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Nov 2018 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh with his wife Shahnaz, in an undated photo. An Iranian pastor who fled the country with his wife four years ago after they were both threatened with execution for apostasy has shared his story at the US State Department. Farhad Sabokrooh, who was a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jul 2018 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. On Sunday morning, 22 July, plainclothes officers attacked the Rasht home of “Church of Iran” pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and, after beating him and his 16-year-old son, took him...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2018 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz, son of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for engaging in Christian activities. Christian convert Amir-Saman Dashti and another, who was arrested alongside him in August 2016, received the...
