Iran: Christian prisoner denied treatment after breaking spine
By Lynn Arias --
Iranian authorities on Oct. 31 denied proper medical treatment to prisoner Aida Najaflou, an Iranian Christian convert, after she fell and...
Iran: 10-Year prison sentence for house church leader
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...
Iranian Christian faces prison after deportation from Turkey
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...
Remembering my brother, martyred at 24 in Iran
(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 executed 900 last year
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...
Iran: Three believers sentenced to 40 years in prison
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...
Evangelist receives 10-year prison sentence
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...
Iran: Twelve-year-old girl given 75 lashes for surprising offense
By Sandra Marroquín —
Only 9 years old, Aynaz Cyrus was arrested for singing publicly in Iran. She was put in handcuffs and hauled off...
New believer a profile in courage
Maryam Jalili was 40 years old when she became a Christian, and by then had already been through so much.
At the age of just...
Eight Christians sentenced to combined 45 years in prison
Eight Iranian Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 45
years in prison.
The eight, who are from the western city of...