Police raided the house church in the southern city of Shiraz on February 8. The same day, they arrested Pastor Maasis Mosesian, in Tehran. The pastor, who is Armenian, is married with two children.
The authorities have also forbidden two other churches in Tehran from holding Farsi language services on Friday, the main day for Christian worship.
The ruling means the authorities have now put a halt to every significant Farsi language service in the capital.' [Release International.]
