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Holy Communion celebrated in Farsi for first time in Church of England cathedral

A Holy Communion service was conducted in Farsi for the first time in a Church of England cathedral last weekend. Wakefield Cathedral in Yorkshire hosted hundreds of Iranians at the service on Saturday which was presided over by Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Bishop of Loughborough. The bishop was just a teenager when her family fled Iran […]

Conversations: Fiona Baird, advocate for Iranian Christians

Fiona Baird

Elam – an organisation aimed at supporting the Persian-speaking church in Iran and beyond – recently opened a regional office in Australia. Director Fiona Baird speaks to DAVID ADAMS about the organisation’s purpose, what life is like for Christians in Iran, and why the church there is seeing such growth at the moment…