Iran: Updates to recent prayer requests

Iran: Updates to recent prayer requests

On 11 and 12 November, Middle East Concern requested prayer for Ebrahim Firouzi, who is serving two years’ internal exile, and for two court hearings, one for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad and the other for Assyrian Pastor Victor bet Tamraz, his wife Shamiram Issavi Khabizeh,...
Iran: Appeal hearing for pastor Victor and four more Christians

Iran: Appeal hearing for pastor Victor and four more Christians

Iranian Christians request prayer for an appeal hearing, scheduled for 13 November, at which the sentences given to five Iranian Christian believers will reviewed. The hearing will combine three long-standing related cases. The first involves Assyrian Pastor Victor...
Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi goes into internal exile

Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi goes into internal exile

Friends of Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi request prayer as he is now on his way to Sarbaz on the border with Pakistan to spend two years in exile there as part of a sentence he received in 2013. Ebrahim was released from Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj on 26 October...
Iran: Hearing for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad

Iran: Hearing for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad

Iranian Christians request prayer for a court hearing on12 November for Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad. Ismaeil (65) was arrested in Shiraz on 25 January and charged with “propaganda against the state and insulting the sacred Iranian establishment.” At a...
Iran: Hearing for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad

Iran: Update on court hearing for Ismaeil Maghrebinejad

On 1 November MEC requested prayer for the court hearing of Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad on 2 November. Close contacts with Ismaeil report that the hearing went well, that the judge accepted the lawyer Ismaeil proposed for his defence and that Ismaeil was...