Three converts from Islam standing in for the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani in leading services in their church in Rasht […]

Though he spoke about freedom, Ayatollah Khomeini’s ultimate agenda was the establishment of an Islamic state based on a rigid, centuries-old interpretation that offered little room for any other expressions of faith.

Despite four decades of state-run repression, Iran’s Christian community of just a few thousand Muslim converts in 1979 has grown to several hundred thousand, or even one million according to some sources.

Sixty-four-year-old Iranian Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has been released on bail after being charged with “propaganda against the state and […]

A 61-year-old woman who converted to Christianity has been forced to visit an Islamic cleric to receive religious “instruction” and […]

The UK government today launched an independent review into the persecution of Christians globally. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the […]

An Iranian Christian convert sentenced last year to five years in prison for “membership of an evangelical group and conducting […]

An Iranian who converted to Christianity nearly 40 years ago was arrested in Shiraz on Friday morning by plainclothes officers […]

A 26-year-old convert to Christianity was arrested following a violent raid on his home in Isfahan last week, Article18 can […]

Amnesty International has called 2018 Iran’s “year of shame” for its “chilling” crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, […]