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Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
The New Testament, I suggest, must be read so as to be understood, read within appropriate contexts, within an acoustic which will allow its full overtones to be heard. It must be read with as little distortion as possible, and with as much sensitivity as possible to its different levels of meaning. It must be read so that the stories, and the Story, which it tells can be heard as stories, not as rambling ways of declaring unstoried ‘ideas’. It must be read without the assumption that we already know what it is going to say, and without the arrogance that assumes that ‘we’—whichever group that might be—already have ancestral rights over this or that passage, book, or writer. And, for full appropriateness, it must be read in such a way as to set in motion the drama which it suggests.
-The New Testament and the People of God
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
The tyrants of Iran - after massacring 30-40,000 innocent people -are now hanging innocent young people from cranes in public and in secret.
This is one of the great moral tests of our time.
Keep shouting about this. Keep remembering them.
As if killing tens of thousands in cold blood and executing innocent protestors at the rate of 4 or 5 a day was not enough, a 43 year old mother of two has been sentenced to death by hanging for simply filming a retail store on fire during the January anti-regime protests.
Witnesses say Abolhassani was only filming when she was arrested on the evening of January 8. Branch 5 of Isfahan’s Revolutionary Court nevertheless sentenced her to death on charges of participating in setting fire to the store.
We are going to hear more cases like this as the regime in Iran is on the verge of collapse. Their last option is to continue killing for absurd reasons just to keep their brutal reign going.
The real tragedy here is that many on here still think that continuing to kill innocent Iranians is just part of the “resistance” to western imperialism and the hanging of this woman is fine as long as a the IRGC and a load of old Mullahs in Iran think Israel and America should be destroyed.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
Iran has just been nominated to preside over the UN Committee for the protection of women's rights, human rights, and the prevention of terrorism.
YES, IRAN. And it was supported by the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.
This is not a joke. It's real.
- @isaacrrr7
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED FOR CREWE TEEN AFTER BODY RECOVERED FROM PICKMERE LAKE. 🙏❤️
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Fabulous day on the Jesus March in central London. Worshipping with the UK church lifting up the name of Jesus!
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
The Islamic regime is preparing to execute Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman from Mahabad.
Held in isolation for months and denied a lawyer, she was accused of "rebellion against the state" - a fabricated charge.
Don’t look away. Be her voice.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
Rashid Mazaheri is a former goalkeeper for the Iranian national football team. Missing since Feb for criticising Ali Khamenei during the January protests. Imagine a report that Joe Hart 🏴 was about to be executed for an Instagram post about the UK PM.
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Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
If true, significant
🚨 Armed clashes between the Iranian Army and the IRGC are reportedly erupting inside Iran.
According to Alhurra, citing informed military and political sources inside Iran, tensions between the regular Army and the IRGC have escalated into armed confrontations in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Ahvaz following the death of Khamenei.
If true, this points to serious fractures inside the Islamic Republic’s military and security apparatus at one of the most dangerous moments in the regime’s history.
The backdrop here is important. The founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, originally created the IRGC because he feared a military coup from the regular Iranian Army after the revolution.
Over decades, the regime transformed the IRGC into a parallel military empire, giving it far more funding, political influence, economic control, and ideological favoritism than the regular Army.
Over decades, the regime transformed the IRGC into a parallel military empire, giving it far more funding, political influence, economic control, and ideological favoritism than the regular Army.
While the Army was often sidelined and distrusted, the IRGC became the regime’s real power center, controlling major sectors of the economy, missile forces, intelligence operations, and proxy networks across the region.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
The persecution facing many Christians in #Yemen is extreme. The country is third on the World Watch List, and since the turn of the year, an unprecedented crackdown on church activity has seen the arrest of more than 50 believers.
Whilst some believers have decided to leave Yemen for their safety, others remain – but it’s very difficult. With no official churches, and given the immense dangers of gathering as Christians, many feel isolated.
That’s why your support for Christians in Yemen and across the Middle East, in places like Syria and Iran, is so crucial. As you help strengthen what remains in the region – through prayer, giving and advocating – you’re showing them that they are not alone. It means so much to them.
Find out more: bit.ly/4mTEko8
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
The Islamic Republic executed all of them in the past 30 days.
Some as young as 17.
Where is the outrage?
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
My time here didn’t quite go to plan but thank you to everyone associated with @crewealexfc I’ve met some great players and great people along the way. We’ve had some good times too. For that I will always be grateful ❤️🚂
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
URGENT: Erfan Shakurzadeh, a university student, is hours away from execution.
He was a student at Iran University of Science and Technology. He had a future. He had dreams. Now he has been transferred to Qezelhesar Prison to be hanged.
Erfan is not alone in that death row. Every single day, the Islamic Republic sends young people, students, protesters, workers, to the gallows.
Tomorrow, they will try to erase him, just like they erased the dozens before him.
Some good news from Iran!
Praise God for this wonderful news from Iran!
Amir-Ali Minaei – a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert whom you might recall praying for – has been released from prison.
Amir-Ali was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison in March 2024 for involvement in establishing a house church. He was charged with ‘propaganda activities against the regime’. The sentence was later reduced to two years and six months after he chose not to appeal. His release from Tehran's Evin Prison on 29 April was part of an annual amnesty.
During his imprisonment, Amir-Ali suffered physical assault by a prison guard and developed a serious heart condition, believed to be caused by the stress of his detention and ongoing pressure. He also went on a hunger strike in protest against restrictions, including being denied access to a telephone. A request for conditional release in January 2025 was denied due to his refusal to cooperate with authorities.
May this testimony encourage us to continue praying for believers in Iran who still face imprisonment, pressure and persecution for their faith.
As we rejoice in this answered prayer, we also remember those who remain in prison, that they would be strengthened, protected and sustained, and that many more would experience the same deliverance.
Source: Article18
Read more: bit.ly/4hTPhlX
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
Clive Johnston was convicted today of breaching an abortion buffer zone. It’s a bad law, leading to bad outcomes. Remember Christians have significant freedoms to share the gospel and these should be exercised wisely and responsibly.
Praying.
Egypt: Coptic Christian scholar convicted of blasphemy for videos defending and explaining Christian faith
Christian Today, April 29, 2026: "A man has been sentenced to five years in prison with hard labour in Egypt after posting online videos about Christianity, according to Christian legal advocacy group ADF International. Augustinos Samaan, a Coptic Christian scholar and content creator with more than 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, was convicted under Egypt’s blasphemy laws for videos defending and explaining the Christian faith."
It’s a brittle religion and culture that can’t stand scrutiny and questioning, and has to shut it down by force.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
With his hands cuffed, he wipes his own tears…Because he was forced to confess to a crime he never committed. And then, they hanged him in Iran for protesting against Islamic Republic.
His name was Erfan Kiani.
But we only heard his name after his execution.
His family stayed silent, not out of choice, but out of fear.
They were told: stay quiet, and maybe he will live.
So unfortunately many families believe the interrogators.
There is no ceasefire in Iran.
The executions never stopped.
The war is not over, it has simply been hidden behind prison walls.
I call on international media and the leaders of free world to take action about it. Say their names.
Do not let them die twice in silence.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
Set a treadmill at 21kph ( max most will go to) and try to run for 30 seconds on it.
That's what he did for 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds.
The peak of human physical achievement. Insane, absolutely insane.
Phil Howell Crewe Chaplain retweeted
🔴Breaking: The Islamic regime in Iran just hanged another innocent young protester, Amir Ali Mirjafari, from the January 2026 protests.
Tortured into confessing to setting fire to a mosque, then executed at dawn.
How many more young Iranians have to die before anyone cares?
