Year: 2015

Ten Christians were arrested in Iran when they were attending the Christmas Day service in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran. Human Rights sources have reported that 10 Christian converts were arrested during a ceremony in a house church in Shiraz. According to report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran , a group of Christian converts had gathered to celebrate “Christmas” and also the eve of New Year, then with the sudden influx by plainclothes forces, they were arrested and transferred to an unknown location, on Friday…

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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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