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‘Offer the light of the Gospel’: Tehran’s new Catholic archbishop is ordained

February 18, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Rome Newsroom, Feb 18, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A Franciscan friar was ordained archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan this week and commissioned to “offer the light of the Gospel” in Iran.

Archbishop Dominique Mathieu, 57, was consecrated in Rome in… […]

From atheism and Marxism to Catholicism: The conversion of Sohrab Ahmari

January 23, 2019 Jim Graves 7

Sohrab Ahmari, 33, is a New York City journalist and Catholic convert. He grew up in a nominally Muslim home in Iran under an oppressive Islamic regime and had renounced all religion by his teen […]

In Iran, Christian converts face 10 year prison sentences

May 12, 2018 Catholic News Agency 0

The Islamic republic’s population is 99 percent Muslim, and its recognized religious minorities are strictly controlled. […]