Year: 2015

Ten Christians were arrested in Iran when they were attending the Christmas Day service in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran. The group of Iranian Christians had gathered together last Friday, December 25, to celebrate Christmas when plain-clothes agents of the Iranian regime’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) raided the in-house church. The detained members of the church have been identified as: Ahmad Golshani-Nia, Moussa Sari-Pour, Mohammad-Reza Soltanian, Mohsen Javadi, Mahmoud Salehi, Elaheh Izadi, Sina Namvar, Alireza Ali-Qanbari, Reza Mohammadi and Khalil. Just two days before the…

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Two weeks after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (sepah) arrested a number of Christian converts in various cities of Iran, there is no news on their condition and their fate.   Based on a report by Iran Human Rights Watchdog Network, Friday 16 October 2015, 9 members and activists of domestic churches in Shiraz were arrested and detained by IRGC, their condition still unknown. Based on the report, Brother Edward, Hossein Karimi, Maryam Fahimi, Mohammadreza Farmani, Milad Shahabi, Farhad Nikoei, Zahra Khakrah, Nasir Ahamad Safi (Afghanian) and Sina Namvar, were…

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