Underground church growing, Islam dying, inside Iran
A new documentary claims the ‘fastest-growing church’ in the world is sprouting up in the unexpected soil of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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’Finding a Job, and Rejecting Sex, Is a Constant’: Iranian Christian Woman Challenges Culture of Sex Slavery in Tehran
Single mothers in Iran are embracing Christianity as a way out of sex slavery.
...continue reading this story7 Iranian Christians Suffer Detention Without Legal Representation, 5 Others Accused of ‘Propaganda Against the Regime’
Seven of the Christians arrested by Iranian intelligence services on July 1st in the city of Bushehr are being held in solitary confinement with no access to lawyers, Middle East Concern reports.
...continue reading this story‘Will the US Army stand by idly while we are killed?’: Syriac Christians Ask for US Protection Against New Turkish Offensive
Christians in northern Syria are calling on the US government to intervene as signs mount that a new wave of Turkish incursions into the country is imminent.
...continue reading this story8 Christians Arrested in Iran, One Elderly Woman Freed
Eight Iranian Christians were arrested by Iranian intelligence officials at the beginning of July, and are currently being held at an undisclosed Intelligence Ministry site in Bushehr, a southern port city on the Persian Gulf.
...continue reading this storyPompeo: State Department Report on Non-Existence of Religious Freedom in Iran ‘Shocks the Conscience’
The thinning oxygen in the atmosphere for Iran’s religious minorities came to light Friday with the State Department’s release of its 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom, which detailed the level of suppression suffered by Christians and Baha’i under the Ayatollahs.
...continue reading this storyChristians in Iraq Struggle to Reclaim Ancestral Homeland in Nineveh Plains
Christians in Iraq are struggling to reclaim their ancestral territory, according to a new report by International Christian Concern (ICC).
...continue reading this storyIraqi Christian Survives Immolation Three Times Due to Appearances by Jesus in His Dreams
‘Hearts and Hands: Iraq,’ a new documentary by Sean Feucht at Bethel Music, tells the story of an Iraqi Yazidi man who survived being burned alive three times after ISIS fighters found out about his Christian faith.
...continue reading this storyTwo Iranian Christians Sentenced for Involvement in ‘Zionist Christianity’
Two Christians in the northern Iranian city of Rasht had their sentences upheld after losing their cases in an Iranian court of appeals.
...continue reading this storyMuslim Kurds Convert to Christianity in War-torn Northern Syria
Many Muslim Kurds disillusioned with Islam are converting to Christianity in the Syrian border town of Kobani.
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