by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 May 2024 | News
This article was first published in 1993 by News Network International and is republished here with kind permission. Several Iranian Protestant churches flatly refused to comply with government ultimatums issued in June [1993], requiring churches to limit evangelistic...
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 | 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 Mansour Borji | 1 Jan 2022 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian Nine converts serving five-year prison sentences for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Dec 2021 | News
A convert serving a six-year prison sentence for leading a house-church has queried how the head of Iran’s judiciary can speak about “defending human rights” while people like him are in prison only for their beliefs. In a voice message from prison, Saheb Fadaie...
