by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Dec 2013 | News
Five Christians were arrested as they celebrated Christmas together on Christmas Eve at a “house church” in eastern Tehran. Ahmad Bazyar, Faegheh Nasrollahi, Mastaneh Rastegari, Amir Hossein Nematollahi were arrested at the home of a man only identified as an engineer...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Dec 2013 | News
Christian prisoner Farshid Fathi has published a letter from Evin Prison on the third anniversary of his arrest, saying he is celebrating Christmas in prison with “unexplainable joy”. Farshid was arrested in December 2010 in Tehran. After months of uncertainty...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Dec 2013 | News
Christian convert Rasoul Abdollahi has been taken to Ward 350 in Tehran’s Evin Prison to begin his three-year prison sentence for “gathering and colluding and promoting Christianity”. Rasoul was one of dozens of Christians arrested by security forces across Iran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Dec 2013 | News
Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced Vruir Avanessian, retired pastor of the Assemblies of God Church, to three and a half years in prison. He was given 20 days to file an appeal. The Revolutionary Court also barred the retired reverend...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2013 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh, pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Ahvaz, and church member Nasser Zamen-Dezfuli have been released from Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison after 214 days. Two years ago, security forces had arrested all those present at a church Christmas celebration....
