The Iranian government is among the most oppressive regimes in the world. It is illegal to leave Islam, and Christians face the constant threat of imprisonment and being falsely charged with “acting...

An Iranian Muslim background believer, detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last month, has been released on bail. Javad Amini was arrested on 17 November and released...

A 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 site. The co...

On 24 September, Branch 21 of the Appeal Court of Tehran acquitted pastor Anooshavan Avedian, 62 of the charge of “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”, and ordered...

On Christmas Eve of 2023, Esmaeil Narimanpour was apprehended by security forces. The Iranian follower of Jesus was charged with "acting against national security by communicating with Christian zioni...

Sixty-year-old Christian prisoner of conscience Mina Khajavi is reported to be struggling with pain and unable to access the medical care she requires inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. The Christian conv...

The Iranian government is among the most oppressive regimes in the world. It is illegal to leave Islam, and Christians face the constant threat of imprisonment and being falsely charged with “acting...

The Iranian government is among the most oppressive regimes in the world. It is illegal to leave Islam and Christians face the constant threat of imprisonment and being falsely charged with “acting ...

For some time, an Iranian woman named Laleh Saati lived in Malaysia and, while there, she was baptised as a Christian. Not wanting to return to Iran, Laleh applied for asylum, but the process continue...

Darya was depressed and scared. Her much older husband had suddenly died of a stroke, and her 8-year-old son had become angry and violent. “I consulted with different psychologists about my son’s ...

An Iranian Christian convert who had been imprisoned and exiled by the regime has been found dead aged 38. Ebrahim Firouzi’s family told mourners at his burial that "he died of a heart attack" on Tu...

Last summer, Hakop, an Armenian citizen, travelled to Iran to visit his wife Elisa’s family. Elisa comes from an Iranian-Armenian family. On 16 August, they were arrested while visiting their fri...

On 11 December, Christian converts Alireza and Amir Nourmohammadi were arrested along with Milad Goodarzi in Karaj by officers of the Iranian intelligence department. Milad was released after several ...

Iranian Christians request prayer for Milad Goodarzi whose home in Karaj was raided on 11 December by four members of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. Milad was arrested and has been taken to an ...

A new study has revealed that Christianity is continuing to spread across the globe despite believers facing extreme persecution for their faith. The 2023 ‘Persecutors of the Year’ report by anti-...

An Iranian-Armenian pastor handed himself into prison in Tehran on 18 September to begin a 10-year sentence for engaging in “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”. ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, created the world’s only Shiite Islamic theocracy and profoundly changed every aspect of life in Iran. Today, many of those who committed t...

Iranian Christians are pleased that a two-year term of internal exile, which was part of sentences issued in 2017, has been dropped for Christian convert Zaman (Saheb) Fadaei. Saheb was arrested al...

Friends of Yousef Nadarkhani and Abdolreza (Matthias) Haghnejad request prayer after the men were informed, they were required...

Iranian Christians are delighted that Homayoun Zhaveh and his wife Sara Ahmadi have been acquitted following a review of their sentences. On 9 May the Appeal Court in Tehran re...

Sara Ahmadi and Homayoun Zhaveh, a Christian couple who had been detained since last August, were informed on 9 April that their third application for a retrial was accepted by Iran...

In Iran Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was released last week from prison as part of a general amnesty, marking the 44th anniversary of the country’s Islamic revolution. He was one of ...