On 19 February 1979, just eight days after the revolution, Anglican pastor Arastoo Sayyah was brutally murdered in his church office in Shiraz, the first of several church leaders murdered in Iran in the violent early years of the revolution.

Shamiram Issavi’s appeal against her five-year jail sentence for “acting against national security” was postponed after a hearing today at […]

The US secretary of state has highlighted the hypocrisy of top Iranian officials sending their children to schools in America […]

A Tehrani woman who converted to Christianity has been told she could face a ten-year prison sentence for “disturbing public […]

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 […]