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 | 11 Feb 2019 | Analysis
By Mansour Borji When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran in February 1979 as the face of the Iranian Revolution, he found a nation longing for social justice, freedom and equality. In his initial speeches, the former exile rode this wave, speaking about...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Feb 2019 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian Despite four decades of state-run repression, Iran’s Christian community of just a few thousand Muslim converts in 1979 has grown to several hundred thousand, or even one million according to some sources. Churches have been closed down, the...
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...
