Iran update

Last updated on February 7th, 2020 at 03:48 pm

Students refuse to trample Israeli flag

Students at Tehran’s prestigious Beheshti University refused to trample giant US and Israeli flags and booed those who did, Twitter video footage has shown.

Protesting … Read More

Iranian converts imprisoned

While the world’s eyes were on tensions between Iran and the USA at the beginning of the year, the Iranian regime continued cracking down on Christians.

A pastor and eight other believers were sentenced to a combined total of 45 … Read More

“The EU is on a collision course with God”

Last updated on December 6th, 2019 at 03:23 pm

EU foreign policy directly contradicts what God says in the Bible about Israel. There can be only one winner in this conflict, says international lawyer Andrew Tucker

The Hebrew Scriptures show … Read More

Iranian Christians fall in love with the Jewish people

Last updated on December 6th, 2019 at 03:41 pm

Secrets of an underground movement led by “fiery” women

by Charles Gardner

In a country whose rulers have vowed to destroy Israel, a growing army of Iranians are falling in love … Read More

Never again?

Last updated on December 6th, 2019 at 04:11 pm

For all the never agains, anti-Semitism did not die at the end of WW2. It is rising like a hydra. What is driving it?

Inflammatory rhetoric plays a big part. The … Read More

The only vicar left in Iraq

Last updated on October 25th, 2019 at 02:59 pm

Meet the brave successor to Canon Andrew White

ON 25 OCTOBER 2009, SUICIDE bombers killed 150 people on the streets outside St George’s Church in Baghdad, injuring 600 more.

Faez Jirjees … Read More

“Hand over Iran tanker for terror debt”

Last updated on August 7th, 2019 at 04:56 pm

In a twist on the Iran tanker crisis, human rights lawyers want Britain to sell the tanker seized by Royal Marines on 4 July to pay millions of dollars owed to … Read More

Persecution Watch Oct – Nov 2017

Rebuilding hope in Iraq

Christians are slowly returning to the town of Karamles in Iraq after Islamic State (ISIS) was ousted.

Over half of the houses in the town are either piles of rubble or completely burnt out, but 250 families have signed up to return. With the help of Christian charity Open Doors, 30 houses have so far been restored, with 20 more in the pipeline. However, the returnees get no help from the government. Read More

PERSECUTION WATCH: APRIL – MAY 2017

Somalian family attacked in their sleep

Terrorists wound father, kill wife and son

Al Shabaab militants in Somalia – affiliated with Al Qaeda

Islamic extremists in Somalia shot a Christian family as they slept, seriously wounding the husband and killing his wife and 11-year-old son.

The militants broke into the family’s home in Afgoi, about 30k from Mogadishu, at dawn. According to Morning Star News, at least four armed men carried out the attack in February, shouting the jihadist slogan, “Allahhu Akbar (Allah is greater)” and saying, “We cannot allow the defiling of our religion with a foreign, Western religion.” Read More

Iranian Church may be world’s fastest growing

Last updated on November 26th, 2016 at 10:13 pm

(Photo: © Hope for the Persecuted)

OVER 200 Iranians and Afghans were baptised at a service near Iran in September.

New converts from eight Persian-speaking churches shared the stories of how Jesus had transformed their lives, according to Elam Ministries. Read More