Iran

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A key official of one of Iran's largest house church movements warned Friday, June 14, that the country's presidential elections would not lead to an improvement for minority Christians in the Islamic nation.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran on Tuesday, September 6, ordered five Iranian Christians, including a heavily pregnant woman, to report to prison on charges linked to their Christian activities, a mission group working in the region said.  

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran's feared security service is pressuring an Iranian pastor to covert back to Islam ahead of an expected ruling by the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini on whether the Christian can be executed by hanging for "apostasy", trial observers said Monday, October 24.  

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife TEHRAN (BosNewsLife)-- At least eight people remained missing Saturday, August 15, after Iranian security forces raided a gathering of new Christian converts in the city of Karaj as part of a wider crackdown on house churches in Iran, well-informed Christians told BosNewsLife.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran's government has ordered children belonging to families of one of the country's largest house church movements to study the Koran and Shi’a Islam teachings or face expulsion from school, a church official confirmed to BosNewsLife Thursday, September 7. The Church of Iran movement is also concerned about four jailed members saying one of them "was deported to a feared secret police facility" in the southern city of Shiraz.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has to serve at least one more year in prison before he may be executed for refusing to abandon his faith in Christ and return to Islam, an official assisting him told BosNewsLife Thursday, December 15.  .

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran has released on bail a man who was jailed because he converted from Islam to Christianity,  but several others remain detained because they are unable to pay for their freedom, Iranian Christians said Monday, April 11.  

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iranian Christians want prayers for a former Muslim who has...

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Rights activists said late Friday, October 4, they were "extremely concerned" about what they called "a serious deterioration in the health" of a 35-year-old Iranian Christian woman who is serving a four year sentence in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man has begun a hunger strike in an Iranian prison to protest the rejection of his conditional release appeal by the Revolutionary Court, despite concerns over his health, Iranian Christians told BosNewsLife Sunday, March 30.