by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jun 2012 | News
A church in western Tehran has been forced to close by order of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The pastor of the church, Robert Gogtapeh, was informed of the decision on 29 May. Then, last Tuesday, Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents ordered the Council of the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jun 2012 | News
Mehrdad Sajjadi, a leader at the Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Tehran, was arrested together with his wife Forough Dashtiani on Thursday 24 May in Karaj. The news follows an alarming trend in closures and imposed restrictions on churches that hold services in the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Feb 2012 | News
Two officially registered churches in Tehran have been told they can no longer conduct services in the Persian language, nor hold any meetings on Fridays – Iran’s day off. Emmanuel Protestant Church and St Peter’s Evangelical Church both received a letter on 10...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Apr 2011 | News
Six converts from Islam have been acquitted of “apostasy”, “blasphemy” and “acting against national security” but sentenced to a year each in prison for “propaganda against the regime”. Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani. It had been feared that Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani, Parviz...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2011 | News
Some of the Christians currently detained in Iran. Scores of Christians in Tehran and other cities have been arrested at their homes in recent days as part of a mass operation by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon,...
