8 Christians Arrested in Iran, One Elderly Woman Freed


by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Eight Iranian Christians were arrested by Iranian intelligence officials at the beginning of July, and are currently being held at an undisclosed Intelligence Ministry site in Bushehr, a southern port city on the Persian Gulf.

The houses and workplaces of the Christians were ransacked, and Bibles, cell phones, hard drives, IDs, credit cards and everything else containing the personal information of the detainees taken as evidence against the recent converts, according to Article 18, a religious freedom organization.

Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, an elderly woman, was released due to her age after six cars carrying Iranian intelligence agents surrounded her house.

A State Department report released at the end of June found that little to no religious freedom existed in Iran, with Christian converts punished as apostatizing or heretical Muslims, the religious status of citizens having been enshrined in Iranian law as a fixed and unchanging category after the 1979 revolution.

A strict “prohibition on proselytizing” enforced through panoptic Iranian intelligence services, who monitor and track converts, was another find of the report.

On April 16 other Christians in the same city lost their appeals and were sentenced for “propaganda activities against the regime through the formation of house churches.”

Iran is currently number 9 on Open Doors USA’s World Watch List for Christian persecution.

We're being CENSORED ... HELP get the WORD OUT! SHARE!!!

Latest Worthy News

Wave of Attacks on U.S. Churches Raises Alarm as Anti-Christian Hostility Surges
Australian Jews Survive Arson Attack On Synagogue; Israeli Restaurant Smashed
Deadly Flood Ravages Texas Christian Camp: At Least 24 Dead, Dozens Missing After Guadalupe River Overflows at Camp Mystic
Trump Signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Into Law in Historic July 4 Celebration as Nation Marks 250th Year
EU To Set Up Global Trade Alternative, Challenging US Dominance (Worthy News In-Depth)
Trump Speaks To Ukraine’s Leader After Unprecedented Russian Strikes
Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Britain’s Health Service Within 10 Years (Worthy News Focus)
Netanyahu Heads to Washington as Trump Pushes ‘Deal of the Century’
Trump Tariff Strategy Nets $106 Billion in Customs Revenue as Trade Policy Pays Off
Fair Use Notice:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

Worthy Christian News