Iran’s theocratic rulers have temporarily released some 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, in an effort to prevent the spread of the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak, but have...
Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country’s economic free fal...
U.S. sanctions on Iran have inadvertently led to a crackdown on its persecuted Christian community as the ayatollahs move to consolidate their power in the face of growing unrest across the count...
A suicide bomber driving an SUV full of explosives crashed into a Catholic church in a Christian minority enclave of Nigeria during Mass yesterday, killing te...
Iran has released Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor, after three years of imprisonment on charges of aposta...
As Nina Shea discussed below, Pakistani authorities have incarcerated a...
Times are tough for Christian communities across the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was putting it lightly when she said that Coptic Christians &ld...
The US State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key tr...
Iran has scheduled a September court date for evangelical Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, whose incarceration for practicing Christianity reaches the 1,000-day mark on Sunday. In an email to T...
As the U.S. and its allies prepare to return to the negotiating table with Iranian representatives, hoping to reach a deal on their nuclear ambitions, the Islamic Republic has significantly ratch...
BERLIN – Iran stepped up its crackdown on the country struggling Christian community by closing a church in Tehran, prompting an Iranian human rights group and religious freedom experts to...
A group of European Catholic Bishops breathed fresh air into countering the Saudi Grand Mufti’s c...
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Former Maldives foreign minister and current U.N. special rapporteur Ahmed...
If the purpose is to penalize Iran’s rulers for their crimes and discourage civilized people from buying blood oil, yes.
Co-authored by Giulio Meotti The case of the Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his faith has attached a human face to the horrible situation of Christians in the...
Iranian pastor Nardakhani refuses to renounce Christian beliefs in exchange for release from prison.
Details of this week’s International Atomic Energy Agency report have begun to leak, and they reveal...
The Iranian regime is in the news again over an alleged terrorist plot on American soil. Back in Iran, the regime's brutality to its own people continues. As Western governments consider how...