Tag: Dezful

Iranian Christian convert released on bail days after threat of ‘indefinite’ incarceration

November 23, 2017 Iran Abdol-Ali Pourmand, Converts, Dezful, House churches, Iran, Islamic extremism, Khuzestan, Mohammed Ali Torabi

An Iranian convert to Christianity arrested on unspecified charges has been released on bail just days after his family was told he would be detained indefinitely. Mohammed Ali Torabi, 39, was ordered to pay 200 million tomans (around US $57,000) to secure his release from prison in Ahvaz, capital of Iran’s . . . Read More

Iranian Christian converts ‘to be detained indefinitely’

November 22, 2017 Iran Abdol-Ali Pourmand, Converts, Dezful, House churches, Iran, Mohammed Ali Torabi

Two Iranian converts to Christianity arrested last month in the western city of Dezful have been told they will be kept in prison until further notice. Mohabat News reports that Abdol-Ali Pourmand, 38, and Mohammed Ali Torabi, 39, who are both members of the same ‘house church’ – Payam-e Aramesh (Message of . . . Read More

Iran: another Christian convert ‘arrested, beaten and told to renounce faith’

October 23, 2017 Iran Abdol-Ali Pourmand, Armenians, Assyrians, Converts, Dezful, Hassan Rouhani, Iran, Khuzestan, Mohammed Ali Torabi

An Iranian convert to Christianity has been arrested in the western city of Dezful, the fourth such convert arrested in the city in recent weeks. Abdol-Ali Pourmand was arrested on Saturday (21 October) after a raid on his home two days before, during which materials including Bibles and Christian CDs . . . Read More

Iran: arrests of Christian converts continue

October 17, 2017 Iran Converts, Dezful, Iran, Mohammed Ali Torabi, Tehran

Five more Iranian converts to Christianity have been arrested in recent weeks, three of whom are still being detained. Church leader Mohammed Ali Torabi, 39, was arrested on 10 October in the western city of Dezful, and is being held in an unknown location. Two other converts were arrested alongside . . . Read More

Crackdown hits official churches

March 16, 2012 Iran Ahwaz, Assemblies of God, Assyrians, Converts, Dezful, House churches, Iran, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Pentecostals, Proselytism, Shiraz

In a rare crackdown on a concentrated area, Iranian authorities have arrested Christians living in the country’s third largest city in what is seen as a tactic to discourage Muslims and converts to Christianity from attending official churches. Since last month officials have arrested about 12 Christian converts in Isfahan, . . . Read More

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