Crackdown on christianity by Iranian government
Government activities against christianity
» Crackdown on christianity by Iranian government» According on a report which released on March 2011,the Iranian corps forces identified 200 house churches in the city of Mashhad.
This statistics has grown after 6 years,and Mashhad as the capital city of Islam in Iran and other cities include Rasht,Tehran and Karaj, have the biggest record of house churches.
The tendency of young people to christianity nowadays,is not the only trouble for government,because a number of house churches hold at the center of the capital.
Last year,Tehran’s Imam Jamaa’t _Sheykh Nosrat allah Hatefi_ mentioned to promotion of christianity among different stratums of society.He said,»today Christians present their religious to our youth in the most appealing way,and in many neighbourhoods specialy «Bani Hashem»neighbourhood
tens of houses have been turned into house churches which evangelize christianity»
The visible result of Iranian government’s crackdown on Christians has been the closure of many churches,including Central Assemblies of God church and Janat Abad church in Tehran,and Assemblies of God church in Ahwaz by security forces of corps.
Also,Christian converts were banned from entering to churches buildings, Publication of bible to Farsi and religious services to Farsi were banned. Permission of publication of books which referring to Christianity was also restricted,and all the books about Christianity already in the market were seized by the government.
On the other hand holding house church which was a private activity ,now acount as a security crime against the government.
Nevertheless,the effects of government’s crackdown againt christianity ,is the confess of Alavi Boroujerdi and the others about growth of christianity in society and distancing from Islam.