Iran

USCIRF, a watchdog for global religious freedom, has used its new annual report to call out the Iranian government for targeting women's rights protesters during demonstrations last year. The report also points out the country’s “decades-long campaign” against religious minorities.

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, once sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy, was the third Christian convert recently released from prison as part of the government’s annual amnesty marking the anniversary of the 1979 revolution.

The Biden administration must learn from what recent history by fundamentally changing its perspective on engagement with Israel, Iran, and the Palestinian leadership.

The guard in a control room at Iran's notorious Evin prison springs to attention as one by one, monitors in front of him suddenly blink off and display something very different from the surveillance footage he had been watching.

Lydia was just three months old when she was adopted by Iranian Christian converts Sam Khosravi and wife Maryam Falahi. Now, just one month before her second birthday, a court has ruled she must be taken away from them.

Word from the Middle East is that God’s Word has been at work, converting people to the Christian faith and thus building the church in Iran, in particular.

The price is high for Christians in Iran. An Iranian-Assyrian pastor and his wife have learned that they must serve prison sentences of 10 and 5 years, respectively, for sharing their faith.

The new law enables the regime to ban any group as a sect and may lead to punishment that could be escalated to include the death penalty. Religious minorities, including Christians, stand to be affected most by it.