by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Oct 2025 | News
The UN’s Special Rapporteur (SR) on human rights in Iran highlighted the recent arrest of Christians on accusations of “espionage” or “collaboration” with Israel during her address to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee yesterday. Mai Sato was speaking as part...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Oct 2025 | News
A 61-year-old Christian convert is free after nearly two years in prison on charges related to her leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who suffers from arthritis and was denied medical care during her imprisonment, was released from Evin Prison on Monday after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Oct 2025 | News
The chair of the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said its commissioners “abhor” the recent sentencing of five Iranian Christian converts “on propaganda charges for religious activities”. Hessamuddin Mohammad Junaidi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2025 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian At a time when systemic discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities in Iran continues unabated, the opening of a new metro station named after Mary and adorned with Christian symbols stands as a striking contradiction. It is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Oct 2025 | News
The growth of the Persian-speaking Church in spite of suffering was the focus of a BBC radio programme yesterday. BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sunday Worship’ programme was broadcast from a Persian-speaking Anglican church in the northwest of England, under the title: “Farsi...
