Category: christians

Iranian authorities arrested a group of Iranian Christians at a house-church in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, last week. A total of 11 Christians were arrested by armed plain clothes intelligence agents in the raid on August 12. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have been able to identify ten of those arrested but an eleventh has still not been identified. However, there is no information about the current status of the detainees. Those identified were Amin Ahanin, Mohammad Alyasi, Fatemeh Amini, Edmund Khachaturian, Mohammad Malek Khatai, Mohsen…

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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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Islamic regime of Iran’s plainclothes officers arrested four Christians in a town outside of Karaj on Tuesday, December 31, 2013, a source close to Iran’s Christians told the International Campaign for Human Rights. Sara Rahiminejad, Majid Sheidaee, Mostafa Nadri, and George Eisaian were violently arrested at the latter’s home in Fardis village of Karaj, 36 kilometers outside Tehran, as they celebrated the Christian New Year. “Several Christian converts had gathered at the home of George Eisaian to celebrate the New Year when plainclothes forces stormed the home, beat up those…

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