Iran Arrests, Coerces Christians over Christmas Season

By World Editor

Published: January 7, 2010

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ISTANBUL (CDN) — A wave of arrests hit Iranian house churches during the Christmas season, leaving at least five Christian converts in detention across northern Iran, including the mother of an ailing 10-year-old girl.
Security officers with an arrest warrant from the Mashhad Revolutionary Court entered the home of Christian Hamideh Najafi in Mashhad on Dec. [...]

Daughter of Baha’i Minister Fled Iran to New Hope in America

By Mark Ellis

Published: January 5, 2010

Daughter of Baha’i Minister Fled Iran to New Hope in America  | read this item

DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — She was a math whiz who defied female stereotypes in Iran by becoming a civil engineer. But after Iran’s 1979 revolution, this daughter of a Baha’i minister was forced to run for her life.
“As a child, I always thought there was something wrong with the world,” says Maheen Vardakostas. Even [...]

Iranian Police Attack Pre-Christmas Celebration

By World Editor

Published: December 23, 2009

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Washington, D.C. /Christian News/ — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on December 17, security police and undercover officers raided a Christian worship gathering and arrested two of the group’s leaders in Karaj, Iran.
According to reports by Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), Iran security police and ‘plain clothes’ officers invaded a group of more [...]

Iran Releases Two Christian Women from Evin Prison

By Damaris Kremida

Published: November 18, 2009

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ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – Two Christian Iranian women, Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30, were released from prison this afternoon with no bail amid an international campaign calling for their freedom since their arrest on March 5.
The two women, whose health deteriorated while in detention at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, [...]