The daughter of an Iranian couple facing long prison sentences for their Christian activities has spoken out against Iran’s ‘mistreatment […]

A pro-government news agency in Iran has claimed the Assyrian church in Tabriz was never forcibly closed, as Article18 reported, and […]

On 9 May 2019, the Ministry of Intelligence, together with the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), forcibly closed down the Assyrian Presbyterian church of Tabriz, in the northwest of Iran.

Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram were sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison, and Christian converts Hadi Asgari and Amin Afshar-Naderi to a combined 25 years.

A young female Christian convert and activist who spent six months in prison for her membership of a Tehran house-church […]

The cross has been replaced on top of the forcibly closed Assyrian church in Tabriz following a global outcry. In the 9 […]

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, yesterday lamented the “intense” persecution of Christians in Iran, during a speech in […]

Five Iranian converts submitted themselves to the central detention centre in Karaj on Saturday to begin their jail sentences for […]

Although Christians in the Armenian and Assyrian churches may practise their faith within strict confines, persecution in Iran is on […]

Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on Monday, […]