Middle East

By BosNewsLife News Center TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Britain-based Christian rights group has urged Iran's government to release two female Christian converts who remained detained Tuesday, May 12, a day after an American-Iranian reporter was freed from jail amid international pressure.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service

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TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- At least 10 reformists were detained before dawn Sunday, June 14, hours after Iranian officials said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected in a landslide victory, the Voice of America (VOA) network reported.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- There is concern about a jailed Iranian-American pastor amid reports he has been mistreated and placed in solitary confinement in one of Iran's most notorious prisons.

By Joseph DeCaro, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- There were concerns Sunday, February 6, about a house church pastor in Iran who was among a group of Christians detained on Christmas Eve, Iranian Christians said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran's feared Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (VEVAK) has summoned the pastor of an evangelical congregation amid a wider crackdown on devoted Christians in the strict Islamic nation, a well-informed source told BosNewsLife Monday, June 9.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service SANAA, YEMEN (BosNewsLife)-- Islamic extremists in Yemen have killed at least two Christian men in recent months because they abandoned Islam and embraced the Christian faith, well-informed sources said Thursday, November 26.

BosNewsLife Middle East Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has appealed to Iraqi authorities to defend minority Christians, after police confirmed that the Christian owner of a car repair shop was killed, execution-style, in Mosul.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife   TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)- An Iranian Islamic court has sentenced three leaders of the country's largest evangelical house church movement to six years imprisonment each on charges linked to their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned Monday, October 20.

TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Several Iranian Christians remained behind bars Tuesday, February 28, including an elderly frail woman, after security forces launched a "systematic series of arrests in different parts of Iran" to "counter the growth of Christianity and the house church movement"Iranian Christians said.