Article 18 | September 3, 2020 A new film is the “first ever to address the underground Christian movement inside of Iran”, its director says. Cyrus Nowrasteh told Article18 that…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | August 18, 2020 The parents of an Iranian Christian who met with President Donald Trump last year in the Oval Office have lost their…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | July 8, 2020 At least a dozen Christians in Iran were reportedly arrested, some of whom were allegedly beaten, by Revolutionary Guard intelligence officers…
Iran HRM | July 6, 2020 At least 12 Iranian Christian coverts have been arrested by the intelligence agents of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in coordinated arrests across across three…
World Israel News | Paul Shindman | July 2, 2020 A fire and an explosion struck a building above Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, a site that U.S.-based analysts…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | June 22, 2020 Iranian Christian convert and human rights activist Mary Mohammadi, who spent 46 days in a detention center and a prison for…
Christian Post | Arielle Del Turco | June 18, 2020 Believers in many countries face severe challenges, according to the State Department’s annual Report on International Religious Freedom, released last week.…
International Christian Concern | June 3, 2020 This past Thursday, four Iranian Christian converts were summoned to begin their five-year jail sentences. Hossein Kadivar, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian and Mohammed…
Article18 | May 18, 2020 An Iranian Anglican Church member has been reconvicted of membership of a “Zionist Evangelical Christian” group “hostile to the regime” at his retrial, and convicted…
Article18 | May 15, 2020 Ramin Hassanpour, his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, Moslem Rahimi and one other have been sent to Lakan Prison. Four Iranian converts to Christianity have been sent…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | April 22, 2020 Iranian Christian convert and human rights activist Mary Mohammadi has been sentenced to three months in prison and torture for protesting…
Save the Persecuted Christians | April 16, 2020 Close Friend Reports to Save the Persecuted Christians That Court Could Issue Verdict for 21-Year-Old Woman Soon WASHINGTON—Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi, a…
S4C News | Meuwissen Sebastien | March 30, 2020 Baghdad and Mosul are overrun by Shiite paramilitary groups who receive funding and weapons from Iran. These groups helped defeat ISIS,…
Religion Unplugged | Lela Gilbert | March 26, 2020 “The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in Iran,” according to Kianush Jahanpur, Iran’s health ministry spokesman tweeted. “Based on…
Christianity Today | Jayson Casper | March 23, 2020 Forced by the new coronavirus, Iran took the tiniest of steps to placate global advocacy for religious freedom. A temporary release of about…
Post | Samuel Smith | March 10, 2020 A 65-year-old Iranian Christian convert who was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” in January has been…
Save the Persecuted Christians | Mar. 6, 2020 Iranian Dissident Imprisoned Again for Protesting the Regime Should be Remembered on International Women’s Day WASHINGTON—Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi, a courageous human rights…
Voice of the Persecuted | March 5, 2020 Six Christians were among the more than 54,000 prisoners released from custody in Iran over the past week, as part of efforts…
Jihad Watch | Andrew Harrod | March 3, 2020 “Christianity is considered an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” wrote February 7 the Christian religious freedom advocates Arielle Del Turco and Lela Gilbert.…
MEC | February 14, 2020 Mary (21) was arrested on 12 January near Azadi Square in Tehran while protests were underway following the downing Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 by…
Persecution | Claire Evans | February 10, 2020 Last February, International Christian Concern (ICC) requested that the United States Treasury Department issue Global Magnitsky sanctions against Iran’s Evin Prison, an entity with…
DISRN | Jordyn Pair | January 17, 2020 Iranian news reports that Christian human rights activist Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi, who was working in Tehran, was arrested on January 12. Her location and…
Discrn | Jordyn Pair | Jan. 17, 2020 Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi | Twitter Iranian news reports that Christian human rights activist Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi, who was working in Tehran, was…
Washington Examiner | Kaylee McGhee | January 12, 2020 The numbers were horrifying: Anywhere from 400 to more than 1,500 dead and thousands more imprisoned at the hands of the Iranian…
Iran fires TENS of ballistic missiles at US bases in Iraq in operation 'Martyr Soleimani' after promising 'crushing revenge' for Trump's decision to kill the top general in drone strike…
Washington Times | Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor | Jan. 2, 2020 The U.S. military claimed responsibility Thursday night for an airstrike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of…
Alarabiya | Emily Judd, Al Arabiya | Dec. 15, 2019 The Iranian regime has begun cracking down on evangelical Christians in Iran in the run-up to Christmas, experts and Iranian…
CBN News | Emily Jones |Dec. 3, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel - The Iranian regime confirmed on state television Tuesday morning that security forces shot and killed what it described as…
For Immediate Release | December 2, 2019 WASHINGTON—This Christmas season, millions of Christians worldwide will celebrate the birth of a baby boy in a stable—a momentous occasion that has eternal…
Middle East Concern | Nov. 1, 2019 Iranian Christians request prayer for Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad who is scheduled to attend a court hearing on 2 November. Ismaeil (65) was…
Article 18 | Oct. 28, 2019 Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has returned home after six years in prison for his religious activities, but he now faces two years’ exile in…
Believers Portal | Sept. 27, 2019 The people of Iran are disillusioned with Islam and they are looking for answers to life. They are not finding answers in the traditional…
Middle East Concern | Oct. 18, 2019 Iranian Christians request prayer for nine men of the “Church of Iran” denomination who have each received a five-year prison sentence due to…
Middle East Concern | Sept. 25, 2019 Friends of Yousef Nadarkhani – a pastor previously sentenced to death for apostasy and presently in Evin prison due to his Christian faith…
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…
NEW YORK TIMES | Mar. 21, 2019LONDON — Britain’s immigration department has been condemned for citing violent Bible passages as the basis to reject an asylum claim by an Iranian…