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Deportation flight to Iran included Christians at risk

The Trump administration’s deportation of more than a hundred Iranians held in ICE custody on a flight that touched down in ...
An appeals court in Iran has upheld the prison sentences of five Christian converts convicted of “propaganda” related to ...
A court has upheld decades of prison sentences for five defendants. Their ‘crime’ was participating in house church services, ...
Trump’s new immigration policies will hurt believers at risk for their faith. It took 18 hours for one Iranian Christian convert to cross the Iranian-Turkish border when she fled her country. “We were ...
In a hotel conference room in Denizli, Turkey, about 60 Iranians sing along to songs praising Jesus mixed with Iranian pop music. When the music stops, American pastor Karl Vickery preaches with the ...
The rate of souls converting to Christ is on the increase in the Middle East. 18 Christians sentenced to jail. c chika ebuzor Follow Our source in Iran says a jailer who loved persecuting Christians, ...
Three Christian converts in Iran have been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison collectively, Article18, a London-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting and promoting religious freedom in the ...
An Armenian citizen will serve 10 years in an Iranian prison after being prosecuted for alleged Christian evangelism. An Iranian judge sentenced Hakop Gochumyan to prison in February 2024 for ...
More than a decade ago, when I still called Iran home, I was imprisoned for more than 200 days, interrogated, and eventually sentenced to death. My crime? I had converted to Christianity and was ...
St Zayya Assyrian Church in Gug Tappeh, north-western Iran. Assyrian and Armenian Christians are the only Iranian Christian communities recognised by the constitution. (Mar Sharb/Creative Commons) Six ...
An attorney representing two people who were deported to Iran this week alleges the U.S. removed them from the country ...