by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | News
Left to right: Alireza Varak-Shah, Hojjat Lotfi Khalaf, Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, and Esmaeil Narimanpour. (MEC) Four Christian converts have been arrested and others summoned for interrogation by intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful. Hojjat...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Apr 2021 | News
Article18’s Mansour Borji, Fred Petrossian and Kiaa Aalipour were among the panelists for the live Clubhouse discussion on Saturday. Religious-freedom advocates from different minority groups were united on the need for increased collaboration during a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2021 | Features
This interview was first broadcast by the Christian Emergency Alliance as a podcast, a truncated version of which is republished here with kind permission. Tat Stewart grew up in Iran as the son of Presbyterian medical missionaries, but when he left to train for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2021 | News
(Photo: Mohabat News) Christian convert Majidreza Souzanchi has been released after more than three years in prison. The 37-year-old was released on furlough from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary last Thursday, 8 April, and has told Mohabat News he does not need to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Apr 2021 | News
Neale Richmond (Photo: Twitter @nealerichmond) A member of the Irish parliament has formally raised concerns over the recent summons to prison of a Christian couple in Tehran for belonging to a house-church. Neale Richmond did not mention the Christians by name in his...