by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Mar 2021 | Features
Maryam Rooznahani Peyhani fled her home in Iran two years ago today, on the anniversary of the raid on her Tehran house-church. The 35-year-old convert to Christianity had been interrogated during the March 2018 raid, and had been told to expect a call from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2021 | News
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been released on bail after nearly three weeks in detention. The 34-year-old, who has already spent years in prison and is now living in exile, was detained on 8 February on new charges of “insulting the sacred”...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2021 | News
Fr Dominique Mathieu (centre) at his consecration service in Rome on 16 February, the feast day St Maruthas, patron saint of Iran. (Photo: www.ofmconv.net) Iran’s small Catholic community finally has a new archbishop. Fr Dominique Mathieu, 57, was consecrated last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Feb 2021 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. Mohammad Ali (Yasser) Mossayebzadeh, who was serving a 10-year sentence as a result of his membership of a house-church, has been granted conditional release from prison. It is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Feb 2021 | News
The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that the Iranian government is guilty of arbitrarily detaining Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and called for his immediate release. In a damning verdict, the working group found Iran guilty on four counts –...
