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…
“The EU is on a collision course with God”
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…
Iranian Christians fall in love with the Jewish people
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…
Never again?
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 only vicar left in Iraq
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…
“Hand over Iran tanker for terror debt”
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…
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…
PERSECUTION WATCH: APRIL – MAY 2017
Somalian family attacked in their sleep Terrorists wound father, kill wife and son Islamic extremists in Somalia shot a Christian family as they slept, seriously wounding the husband and killing…
Iranian Church may be world’s fastest growing
(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…
PERSECUTION WATCH Oct – Nov 2016
Girl kidnapped by ISIS appears on Facebook Two years after her abduction by ISIS, little Christine, whose kidnap we reported in HEART, is still missing – but hopes rose for…
Iran: Maryam back in prison after treatment
Maryam Naghash Zargaran before her imprisonment Maryam Naghash Zargaran, a Christian convert from Islam, has been in Evin prison for three years and urgently needed medical treatment which the prosecutor…
British bishops join Free Iran protest
Right Rev Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester – one of several bishops protesting against Iran’s treatment of Christians. Photo: Diocese of Gloucester Persecution of Christians in Iran is getting worse,…
US accused of Iran cover-up
The law firm that successfully lobbied for the release of Christian pastor Saeed Abedini from Iran says the US administration ignored hostages in Iran while negotiating a nuclear deal with…
Iranian prisoner encourages the faithful
The current crackdown on Christians in Iran has targeted the leaders of house churches, but an imprisoned convert has managed to sneak out a message to encourage Iranian Christians.
JEWS AGAIN THREATENED WITH GENOCIDE – DO WE CARE?
WHEN THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ WAS CELEBRATED JUST A YEAR AGO, FEW COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT ANTI-SEMITISM WOULD GET EVEN WORSE. BUT IT HAS… THE PAST…