Iran: Mary Mohammadi released on bail
Iranian Christians are pleased that Christian convert Mary (Fatemeh) Mohammadi has been released conditionally from Qarchak women’s prison, Varamin. Mary (21) was arrested on 12 January near Azadi Square in Tehran while protests were underway following the downing...
Iran: Appeal hearing for Iranian Christians
The appeal hearing scheduled for 24 February to review the sentences of Assyrian pastor Victor Bet Tamraz, his wife Shamiram Issavi Khabizeh, and three Christian converts has been postponed once again. Three long-standing related cases have been combined and are under...
Iran: Appeal hearing for Iranian Christians
Iranian Christians request prayer for an appeal hearing on 24 February to review the sentences of Assyrian pastor Victor Bet Tamraz, his wife Shamiram Issavi Khabizeh, and three Christian converts. The hearing will combine three long-standing related cases. The first...
Iran: Mary Mohammadi abused and facing criminal charges
Iranian Christians request prayer for Christian convert Mary (Fatemeh) Mohammadi who is now known to be in Qarchak women’s prison, suffering from physical abuse she has received while in detention. Mary (21) was arrested on 12 January near Azadi Square in Tehran while...
Turkey: Assyrian Christians request prayer
Assyrian Christians in Turkey request prayer for an elderly couple missing from their village since 11 January. Hurmuz and Shimoni Diril, parents of Remzi Diril, a priest in the Chaldean Church in Istanbul, are the only Christian residents of the village of Kovankaya...
Iran: Christian prisoner requests prayer
Iranian Christian convert and prisoner, Nasser Navard Goltapeh, writes to fellow Christians and requests prayer. Philippians 1:12: "Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel." Nasser and three...
Iran: Early release for three Christian converts
Iranian Christians are very pleased that Asghar Salehi has been given early release from prison. It is expected fellow prisoners Mohammadreza Rezaei and A.T. will also be released soon. On 18 September 2018, Iranian intelligence agents raided the homes of Asghar,...
Israel: Messianic congregation harassed
Messianic Jews in Israel request prayer after potential trouble-makers took photographs inside the premises of Kehilat Hasdey Yeshua - a Messianic congregation in the Negev. Kehilat Hasdey Yeshua meets in a warehouse in the industrial part of the city of Arad, which...
Algeria: Court Orders Another Church to Close
Christians request prayer for a church in Ain Turk, near Oran, ordered to close by the administrative court of Oran on 20 January 2020. The church of “The House of Hope” was sealed by an executive order from the Governor of Oran in October 2017. On 10 June 2018 the...
Iran: Concerns about arrested Christian convert
Iranian Christians request prayer for Christian convert and activist Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi, who remains unaccounted for since her arrest in Tehran on 12 January. Fatemeh, or Mary as she likes to be known, was near Azadi Square in Tehran while protests were underway...
Iran: Christian convert receives three year prison sentence
Iranian Christians request prayer after Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad received a three-year prison sentence for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs.” Ismaeil (65) was arrested in Shiraz on 25 January 2019 and charged initially with “propaganda against the...
Iran: Annual Report on Rights Violations Released
Middle East Concern, in collaboration with Open Doors International, Article 18 and CSW has released the 2019 report on violations of the rights of Christians in Iran. During 2019, Iranian Christians, along with other religious minorities, continued to suffer multiple...