Tag: Iranian Christians

Women who become Christians, she said, find that they “are loved, they are wanted, and they can come to God just as they are, without any shame”.

Pastor Irani was initially arrested in December 2006. He was released the following year, but was given a five-year suspended sentence in 2008.

Christians make up just half of one per cent of the population in Iran. Most are discriminated against in education, employment and property ownership.

Alireza Seyyedian converted from Islam to Christianity in 2006, was sentenced to six years in prison for being baptized in Turkey.

A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that ISIS has detained Kurdish children to be tortured. Four teen boys reported that they had been suscepted to beatings and forced to watch videos of ISIS beheadings.

THE mother of Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned in Iran, has fled the country after the government threatened her with arrest, according to...

A British-Iranian woman held in Iran after trying to watch a men's volleyball match is on hunger strike for the second time, according to her family. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25-year-old law graduate from London, is said to be protesting against what she called her illegal detention.

AMONG the religious minorities languishing in Iranian prisons is America citizen and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, who has spent more than two years behind bars for allegedly proselytizing in Iran.

IRANIAN security authorities raided an Easter service in a house-church in southern Tehran, on Friday, April 18, arresting those in attendance.

VAHID Hakkani is held in Abel-Abad prison in the southwestern Shiraz city, outside the capital Tehran, after being found guilty of "attending a house-church, spreading Christianity, having contact with foreign [Christian] ministries".