Iranian Christian Refugee in Panama Faces Deadline to Find AsylumMay 13, 2025 — 5/13/2025 Panama (International Christian Concern) — After spending three months in Panama, a 27-year-old Iranian woman is still praying and searching for a safe country to accept her. And her...
Global Executions on the Rise in a Trend Led by the World’s Top Persecutors May 9, 2025 — 5/9/2025 United States (International Christian Concern) — Amnesty International, a human rights watchdog group, last month released its annual report on global executions. The report documented 1,518 executions in 2024...
The Brutal Persecution of Iranian Christians is Growing April 9, 2025 — 4/9/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — Iran’s repressive regime executed more than 900 people in 2024 and handed down “scores of death sentences for religious-based charges,” according to a March...
Online Jesus Film Reaches Persecuted Nations in Southeast Asia and Beyond March 27, 2025 — 3/26/2025 Southeast Asia (International Christian Concern) – Revelation Media announced the results from its six-month campaign where it intentionally and strategically targeted spreading its Real Story of Jesus short film...
Iranian Christians in Legal Limbo After Deportation to Panama March 25, 2025 — 3/25/2025 Panama (International Christian Concern) — A group of Iranian Christians has been given 30 days to leave Panama, where they were sent last month after seeking asylum in the...
3 Iranian Christians Receive Severe Prison Sentences March 20, 2025 — 3/20/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — As extreme Christian persecution continues in Iran, three Christian converts in the nation received a combined total of nearly 42 years in prison on...
Two Christian Men Rearrested in IranMarch 7, 2025 — 3/7/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — Iranian authorities rearrested two Christian men, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh in Parand and Joseph Shahbazian in Tehran, at their respective homes on Feb. 6, and...
Christian Woman Arrested in Iran After Police Raid Christian GatheringFebruary 26, 2025 — 2/26/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — Iranian authorities raided a gathering of roughly 80 Christian converts on Feb. 6 in northern Iran, and arrested Somayeh Rajabi, according to a report from...
Deported Persecuted Christians Expected to Face Persecution Yet Again February 25, 2025 — 2/25/2025 Panama (International Christian Concern) — Among those deported from the United States to Panama for eventual return to their home countries are several converts to Christianity facing severe persecution...
Crude Consequences: The Hidden Cost of U.S. Oil Imports from Persecuting NationsJanuary 2, 2025 — 01/02/2025 Middle East (International Christian Concern) – Eight of the 12 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) actively participate in or condone Christian persecution within their...
Christians Fleeing Iran Struggle to Prove their Faith in Nearby GeorgiaDecember 6, 2024 — 12/6/2024 Georgia (International Christian Concern) — After becoming a Christian, Jalal Darzi experienced persecution and was forced to flee Iran. Now he’s having trouble obtaining asylum in nearby Georgia because...
Iranian Pastor Released from Prison Following International Outcry November 8, 2024 — 11/8/2024 Iran (International Christian Concern) — After serving more than one year of his 10-year prison sentence, an Armenian-Iranian pastor recently gained freedom from Tehran’s Evin Prison following public outcry....
China Pledges Support for IranOctober 25, 2024 — 10/25/2024 China (International Christian Concern) — Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged steadfast support for Iran on Wednesday during the annual BRICS summit in Russia, the Chinese news outlet Xinhua reported. ...
Report Shows Christian Persecution Worsening Worldwide October 24, 2024 — 10/24/2024 United Kingdom (International Christian Concern) — A report released on Tuesday shows that Christians around the world are enduring increased levels of violence, discrimination, and other human rights abuses....
Iran: Where Oppression Helps the Church GrowOctober 18, 2024 — 10/18/2024 Iran (International Christian Concern) — Decades of fierce government oppression have failed to eradicate the church in Iran. Introduced in 1979 after a bloody revolution, the modern-day theocracy ruling...
Technology Can Help Persecuted Christians August 27, 2024 — By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow Technology, just like money, is a tool that can be used for good or evil. We know that technology has increased persecution.(1) It also has profoundly...
