Persecution Iran

By Lynn Arias -- Iran has an open secret. Persecuting Christians is a booming business in the Muslim-majority nation, and the country is earning large...

By Lynn Arias -- Nayereh Arjaneh, a Christian convert living in Iran, began serving a five-year prison term on Dec. 23 because of her faith. Christian converts are...

By Lynn Arias --  Iranian authorities on Oct. 31 denied proper medical treatment to prisoner Aida Najaflou, an Iranian Christian convert, after she fell and...

Mehran Shamloui, a Christian convert, has been denied a retrial for his case by the Iranian Supreme Court.  Shamloui was arrested in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years and...

Mehran Shamloui, a 37-year-old Iranian Christian, clings to his faith as he faces a grim return to certain persecution at the hands of government...

(An extract from a recent BBC recording from British-Iranian bishop Guli Francis- Dehqani, daughter of the first Persian bishop of Iran and sister of a martyr of...

Iran’s repressive regime executed more than 900 people in 2024 and handed down “scores of death sentences for religious-based charges,” according to a March...

Three Christian converts including a woman pregnant with her first child have been sentenced to over 40 years in prison on charges related to their...

Christian convert has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges including engaging in “propaganda” by “propagating Christianity”, according to an Iranian Christian news...

By Sandra Marroquín — Only 9 years old, Aynaz Cyrus was arrested for singing publicly in Iran. She was put in handcuffs and hauled off...