Persecution Iran

After losing a court appeal in early June, Armenian Hakop Gochymayan received a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly participating in Christian activities in Iran.  According to Asia News, there...

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...

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...

“They said if I return to Islam, I could have it all… But how could I forget what Jesus had done for me? The...

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...

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

(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...

A hospital founded by American missionaries 100 years ago and confiscated following the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 has been demolished after...

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...

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...