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Russian Orthodox Church Official Stresses Importance of Dialogue with Islamic Iran

April 15, 2013 News

15/4/13 TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Foreign Relations Office of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Hilarion in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Reza Sajjadi underlined the importance of holding talks with Islamic scholars in Iran. During the meeting, Hilarion declared that Orthodox church welcomes developing ties and cooperation with Iran, and expressed pleasure with high [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Iranian ambassador to Russia

April 12, 2013 News

On April 11, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Mahmoud Reza, at the DECR. Participating in the meeting were also Deacon Dimitry Safonov, head of the inter-religious contacts office, and Mr. M. Palacio of the [...]

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: January, 2013

March 28, 2013 Featured News

Raymond Ibrahim - 28/3/13 Originally published by the Gatestone Institute The 2013 year began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live side by side with large numbers of Muslims, they are under attack.  One report said that “Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the region where oppression of Christians is spreading fastest.” [...]

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Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Catholicos Aram I, Confer on Syria

January 18, 2013 News

15/1/13 This morning, Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ghandafar Abadi paid a visit to Antelias and briefed Catholicos Aram I about Iran’s conceptualization of how to end the conflict in Syria. After listening to Ambassador Apat, Catholicos Aram I stressed that a political resolution must be found, that Syria must remain free of foreign intervention, and [...]

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Christians celebrate Christmas in Iran

December 26, 2012 News

26/12/12 Christmas Holidays, here again. Many Christians in Iran are out scrambling to buy last minute presents.  There are about 150,000 Christians in Iran, most of them Armenians, who celebrate Christmas in churches and at homes with family and friends. Christmas is the annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed [...]

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Iranian FM: Insecure Syria Benefits No One but Zionist Regime

November 20, 2012 News

20/11/2012 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s foreign minister blamed the terrorist groups and their foreign advocates for continued instability and bloodshed in Syria, saying that lack of stability and tranquility in the Arab country only serves the interests of the Zionists. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made the remarks in a meeting with Mar Gregorios Yohanna [...]

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Iran reconstructs Armenian church

November 15, 2012 Featured News

15/11/2012 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Iran has started the reconstruction of the  Armenian St. Hripsime Church after it was damaged by an earthquake this August in the North of Iran, reports Armenpress citing Atrpatakan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The church is located in the north-western of Tabriz city and Archbishop Grigor Chifchian visited [...]

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Iran reconstructs Armenian St. Hripsime Church

November 10, 2012 Featured News

10/11/2012 Iran has started the reconstruction of the  Armenian St. Hripsime Church after it was damaged by an earthquake this August in the North of Iran, Atrpatakan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church informs. The church is located in the north-western of Tabriz city and Archbishop Grigor Chifchian visited the reconstruction site, he told blahovest-info.ru. [...]

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Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani released from prison

September 14, 2012 News

On 8 September 2012, according to the Iranian court decision, Yousef Nadarkhani, 35-year-old evangelical pastor, was released from prison. In June 2009, he was arrested for evangelism in Rasht city (northwest of Iran). His arrest was preceded by his appeal to the authorities, in which he disputed a law of the Gilan province. According to [...]

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Armenian community of northern Iran not affected by earthquake

August 16, 2012 News

15/8/2012 The August 11 devastating earthquake did not affect the Armenian community of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, diocese representatives told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Head of the Armenian diocese Grigor Chiftchian was in St. Shoghakat church during the earthquake. Church was not damaged with the exception of cracked plaster. Head of the diocese contacted Armenian communities of [...]

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: June 2012

July 30, 2012 Featured News

Raymond Ibrahim 30/7/2012 U.S.-backed rebels are committing Christian genocide in Syria, where they are sacking churches and issuing threats that all Christians will be cleansed from rebel-held territory. A mass exodus of thousands of Christians is taking place, even as mainstream Western reporters like Robert Fisk demonize those same Christians for being supportive of the [...]

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Iran’s St. Thaddeus Church to host Armenian pilgrims

July 19, 2012 News

17/7/2012 Scores of Armenians, Assyrians and Catholics from Iran and other countries will attend the annual event as part of their pilgrimage on the Day of St. Thaddeus. The ceremony is known as one of the largest religious ceremonies held by Armenians, Press TV reports. The St. Thaddeus Church, is one of the oldest and [...]

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Armenian Patriarch: Religious minorities are respected in Iran

July 16, 2012 Featured News

15/7/2012 Armenian patriarch praised Iran’s officials for creating equal occupation opportunities, activities and religious rites for Christian minorities. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – He added religious minorities in Iran are respected and have full freedom. Patriarch Gregor Joftchian, at the end of religious rites in Chaldoran Kara Kilise, told reporters that holding glorious spiritual rites [...]

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Armenian pilgrims to visit St. Thaddeus Church in Iran

July 16, 2012 News

14/7/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Iran’s Qara Kelisa will honor the memory of Saint Thaddeus and his faithful followers during a ceremony in the northern province of West Azarbaijan, according to Press TV. Scores of Armenians, Assyrians and Catholics from Iran and other countries will attend the annual event as part of their pilgrimage on the Day [...]

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“Islam-Christianity make Iran-Russia close to each other”

June 29, 2012 News

Iran’s Secretary General of World Assembly of Islamic Religious Proximity said that Islam and Orthodox Christianity talks have made Iran and Russia close to each other. MOSCOW, Russia (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Iran’s Secretary General of World Assembly of Islamic Religious Proximity said that Islam and Orthodox Christianity talks have made Iran and Russia [...]

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Iran funds reconstruction of Armenian Church

June 26, 2012 Featured News

25/6/2012 Iran has allocated funds for the reconstruction of St Sargis Church of Khoy. Iranian news agency MEHR reported that Hosseyn Bahrein, representative of Cultural Heritage Organization of Eastern Azarbaijan province said 230 million Iranian Rial ($ 130 thousand) are allocated for the accomplishment of the project. The Iranian official stressed St Sargis is one [...]

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: April 2012

May 20, 2012 Featured News

Raymond Ibrahim 20/5/2012 “The police are also involved in this.” “500 Muslims had gathered and were watching in amusement as the extremists chased and harassed the Christians, attempting to murder them all, for about 90 minutes.” As Easter, one of the highest Christian holidays, comes in April, Christian persecution in Muslim nations—from sheer violence to [...]

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Aram I visits Armenian communities in northern part of Tehran

May 20, 2012 Featured News

20/5/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – As part of his pontifical visitation program, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, paid a pastoral visit to the Armenian communities in Ghazvin, Rasht and Anzaly, located in the northern part of Tehran, Iran. Accompanied by the Primate of Tehran Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, the Primate of Isfahan [...]

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Catholicos Aram I pays visit to Iran

May 9, 2012 Featured News

8/5/2012 Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia arrived on a pastoral visit to Iran on Monday. He will preside on the interfaith dialogue meeting between the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran that began 10 years ago. Speaking in Surb Sargis church in Tehran, Aram [...]

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Crackdown in Iran Hits Official Churches

March 19, 2012 News

18/3/2012 Authorities target Isfahan’s Anglicans, as well as ‘underground’ Christians 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 [...]

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Open Doors explosive church growth in Iran

March 16, 2012 News

16/3/2012 Iran (MNN) ― Middle East Open Doors staff members recently reported that church growth is “explosive’ in Iran; they even speak of a revival. Iran is the fifth country in the world on Open Doors’ World Watch List for the persecution of believers. The president and the supreme leader of the country openly speak [...]

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About a Slice of History

March 3, 2012 News

BY CATHERINE YESAYAN 2/3/2012 Learning a slice of history from the city of Tabriz, where Armenians have thrived for centuries, is one of the attractions of a special March 10 banquet planned by “Jan Tavriz.” The group strives to preserve Armenian heritage in Tabriz and in the northwestern region of Iran known as the province [...]

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Iran: Christian Arrests Indicate Renewed Crackdown is Underway

February 22, 2012 News

Aidan Clay, ASSIST News Service 22/2/2012 IRAN (ANS) — In Iran’s 1979 revolution, many Iranians believed that an Islamic-based government would offer the reforms and freedoms they had long sought under the Shah. Thirty-three years later, however, Iranians have grown disillusioned as their government has plunged them into economic stagnation and has isolated them from [...]

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Syria: Christians Caught Between Two Fires, See Iran’s Hand

February 10, 2012 News

10/2/2012 MISNA “Of course Syrian Christians are afraid. They have much to lose and they know it, Even if this absurd conflict that pits brothers against each other, Christians have nothing to do with it and they will be the ones, as a minority, who may have to pay the highest price of this absurd [...]

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Armenian residences of Tehran and Esfahan started 2012 in their Churches

January 10, 2012 Featured News

10/1/2012 Armenian residences of Iran moved to Iran in 1605 when Shah Abbas was ruling over the country. Most of the Armenian immigrants settled in the cities of Tehran, Esfahan, Azerbaijan-Sharghi and Azerbaijan-Gharbi and today their seeds continue to live there. The New Year celebrations is being held every year in greatest and the most [...]

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