by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2025 | News
The head of Iran’s judiciary has boasted about the decision to provide Christian prisoners with five days leave over Christmas, neglecting to mention that in excess of 40 Christians were arrested for participating in Christmas celebrations in December, while at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jan 2025 | News
A Catholic convert arrested after protesting against her mistreatment by the Iranian authorities has been released after two months in Evin Prison, but faces a further four months behind bars and 74 lashes if any further “offence” is committed within the next five...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian pastor who has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2006 was released from his latest long incarceration on account of his religious beliefs and practices on Saturday. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias and will celebrate his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian Christian convert detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last month has been released on bail. Javad Amini was arrested on 17 November and released on 27 November, the day after he and 11 other Christians from Nowshahr, north...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2024 | News
Iran’s Catholic archbishop has admitted that the doors to the churches he oversees are “closed to almost everyone”, and said he prays “one day perhaps the door can open to others”. “Our doors … are open for [Catholics] but are closed to almost everyone else,” Fr...
