by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Jan 2022 | News
Two rulings at the end of 2021 offered hope that one day Iranian Christians may no longer be charged with “acting against national security” for simply meeting together to worship in their homes. First, on 3 November, the Supreme Court ruled that nine Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Jan 2022 | Reports
Two rulings at the end of 2021 offered hope that one day Iranian Christians may no longer be charged with “acting against national security” for simply meeting together to worship in their homes. First, on 3 November, the Supreme Court ruled that nine Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jan 2022 | News
Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji (left) and his brother Mansour. Two brothers remain missing more than a month after their arrest at a Christmas gathering near Isfahan. Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji, 53, and his brother Mansour, 46, were with around eight other Christians at a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2022 | News
Habib Heydari (left) and Sasan Khosravi. Two Christian converts have been released from prison at the conclusion of their one-year prison sentences for belonging to a house-church, but one of them now faces two years’ exile. Sasan Khosravi, who is 36 years old, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jan 2022 | News
It was on this day 28 years ago that one of Iran’s most senior Protestant church leaders, ethnic Armenian Christian Haik Hovsepian, disappeared, later to be found stabbed to death. Nearly three decades on, and although the killing of senior Christian figures in Iran...
