by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2022 | News
Just two weeks after the release on bail of nine Christian converts, pending a review of their case ordered by Iran’s Supreme Court, one of them is already back in prison – thanks to a ruling by a different branch of that same Supreme Court. Abdolreza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Jan 2022 | News
St Luke’s Anglican Church in Isfahan, one of just four Persian-speaking churches still permitted to operate inside Iran, but not allowed to take on new members. Iranian-speaking churches in the diaspora have added their voice to the call for Persian-speaking...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2022 | News
Yasser’s son, Amir Ali, during his younger years. An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience is mourning the death of his only child. Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari, who was a single parent, was informed on 28 December that his 18-year-old son, Amir Ali, who had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jan 2022 | News
Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi has begun serving his four-year prison sentence for “acting against national security” by attending a house-church and “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity”. The 32-year-old delivery driver, who has a nine-month-old daughter, handed himself in to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2022 | News
The lawyer of a Christian convert who has spent nearly four years in prison for “acting against national security” by being part of a house-church has asked what danger the release of his 60-year-old client could pose. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is one of the longest...
