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...
Hospital founded by American missionaries demolished
A hospital founded by American missionaries 100 years ago and confiscated following the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 has been demolished after...
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...
Christian convert given prison sentence on return to Iran
A Christian convert who was baptized in a church in Malaysia has been sentenced to two
years in prison in Iran for “acting against national...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...