God Reports | Mark Ellis | Sept. 11, 2019 For the last few years, researchers have credited the underground church in Iran as the fastest growing Christian church in the…
Middle East Concern | Sept. 4, 2019 Iranian Christians request prayer for convert Fatemeh Bakhteri (also known as Ailar), who has started serving a one-year prison sentence in Evin Prison…
Middle East Concern | Aug. 26, 2019 On 26 August MEC issued an email requesting prayer for an appeal court hearing scheduled for 3 September in which three separate cases…
July 29, 2019 | Middle East Concern On 27 July Mahrokh (Roksare) Kanbari (65) attended Karaj Islamic Revolutionary Court to answer charges of “acting against national security.” Commenting on the…
CP | Samuel Smith | May 7, 2019 Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Mahmoud Alavi, openly expressed concern last weekend about the spread of Christianity in the Islamic republic and said…
International Christian Concern | Feb. 24, 2019 Iranian cleric Hujjat al-Islam Naser Rafiei delivered a speech in Qom (home to the largest Islamic seminary in Iran) which warned against the…
The Christian Post | Jan. 19, 2019 Two Iranian Christians at their final appeal hearing were ordered by a court to renounce their Christian faith to gain their freedom but…
The Tower | Jan. 14, 2019 The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a brutal crackdown on the country’s Christian minority before and after Christmas, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow…
Radio Farda | Dec. 30, 2018 Tasnim news agency connected with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reported on Sunday that nine evangelical Christians have been arrested in recent days in Alborz province,…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 Amir Taleipour and his wife Mahnaz Harati were arrested during a raid on their home in the city of Mashhad by Iranian intelligence…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 The fate of an Iranian Christian who disappeared during a massive crackdown by the authorities on the church has finally been revealed after…
Middle East Concern | Dec. 17, 2018 About thirteen plain-clothed Revolutionary Guards conducted raids on four homes on the morning of 2 December, arresting Shima Zanganeh (27), Shokoofeh Zanganeh (30),…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 17, 2018 Earlier this month, Iranian media announced a widespread detainment of Christians across the country. ICC reported how over 100 Christians were detained by the Iranian…
World Watch Monitor | Dec. 5, 2018 Over 100 Christians have been arrested in Iran in the past week and nearly 150 in the past month, as part of the…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 5, 2018 Ebrahim Firouzi is an Iranian Christian convert who has been detained in prison since 2013. His mother, Kobra Kamrani, passed away from cancer…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 4, 2018 Mehr News Agency, which is a semi-official mouthpiece of the Iranian Regime, announced in an exclusive report on Saturday that a group of…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 21, 2018 Two Iranian Christian converts have been taken by Iran’s security agents from the houses they were staying in Karaj and Mashhad on Friday,…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 19, 2018 Middle East Concern reports that last week two Iranian Christian converts from Karaj, which is just northwest of Tehran, were prevented from meeting…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 14, 2018 The massive waves of unrest which have plagued Iran this past year point toward the people’s frustration with the moral and economic bankruptcy…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 12, 2018 Mohabat News reports, that inside Iran, fresh media attacks singling out evangelical Christianity have been on the rise. This latest wave is because…
ACLJ | Oct 29. 2018 Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been arrested yet again for being a Christian. Iranian authorities brutally beat him as his terrified family watched. His young son…
International Christian Concern - Oct. 24, 2018 According to Mohabat News and the Iran Human Rights Monitor, authorities have continued to deny imprisoned Christian Ebrahim Firouzi medical care. For months,…
Raymond Ibrahim | Oct. 9, 2018 In his recent speech before the United Nations, and as a way to support his claim that Israel is “a rogue and racist regime [that] trample[s]…
World Watch Monitor | Oct. 2, 2018 Two Iranian Christians have been given prison sentences for “spreading propaganda against the regime”, reports Middle East Concern. Saheb Fadaei and Fatimeh Bakhteri, who…
The Tablet | 062218 'The regime has been..criticised by international human rights organisations for its appalling human rights record' In an initiative promoted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord…
For more than a week, thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest their government. Spurred by anger over a weak economy and increasing fuel and food prices,…
When, in 2014, Daesh initiated the genocidal campaign against religious minorities, Christians, Yazidis and others, many religious freedom advocates hoped that such atrocities would trigger a change on how the…