by designer | 31 Oct 2023 | News
Iran has for many years been listed among the worst countries for persecuting Christians, featuring prominently every year on Open Doors International’s World Watch List of the top 50 persecutors and the US State Department’s Countries of Particular Concern for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Oct 2023 | News
Iran’s violations of the rights of religious minorities, including Christians, was one of the issues raised by a panel of UN experts this week as they questioned a delegation from the Islamic Republic on its compliance with international law. Article 18 of the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Oct 2023 | Features
An Iranian Christian couple recently resettled in Canada have spoken of their longing to finally be able to call somewhere “home”, having spent seven and a half years as refugees in Turkey. Earlier this year, Article18 released a report outlining the “critical need”...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Sep 2023 | Features
Elmira Torabi says becoming a refugee was the last thing on her mind when she left Iran in early 2021 to begin a master’s degree in nanotechnological engineering in Rome. But within four months, Elmira had not only discontinued her studies, but had left Italy for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2023 | Reports
Iranian Christians continue to be among the most affected by the significant drop in refugee resettlement to the United States in recent years, according to a new report. Just 112 Iranian Christians were resettled to the US last year, 95 per cent fewer than 2016, the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2023 | News
Iranian Christians continue to be among the most affected by the significant drop in refugee resettlement to the United States in recent years, according to a new report. Just 112 Iranian Christians were resettled to the US last year, 95 per cent fewer than 2016, the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2023 | News
As Iran’s president was flying to New York this morning, an Iranian-Armenian pastor was handing himself in to prison in Tehran to begin a 10-year sentence for engaging in “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”. Anooshavan Avedian, who is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Sep 2023 | News
Article18 has joined over 125 other Iranian Christian organisations and churches from 16 different countries in signing a joint statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. In the statement, the full text of which can be read...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Sep 2023 | News
Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has been “pardoned” and released after just over a year in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The 59-year-old was last year given a 10-year sentence for holding church services in his home, though this sentence was reduced to two years in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Sep 2023 | Features
It’s 10 years since Nasrin was arrested, but it has taken nearly all that time for her to recover and reach the point where she now feels able even to forgive those who mistreated her. Nasrin was one of six women converts to Christianity arrested in February 2013 and...
