Iran

According to a new survey, it is believed that around 1 million Iranians have joined the Christian church despite rampant persecution.

Despite being under an oppressive government that forbids conversions from Islam to Christianity, thousands are giving their lives to Christ in what has been coined the "pandemic of hope."

It appears that newly passed legislation in Iran may make it easier for Christians and other religious minorities to be arrested and imprisoned.

On Monday, the Iranian government issued a warrant for President Trump's arrest. The government also requested help from Interpol in order to execute the warrant.

While some Christians have been released from Iranian prisons amid the COVID-19 crisis, other Christians as still facing convictions because of their faith.

An Iranian Christian has received a suspended prison sentence and has been ordered to be flogged 10 times for protesting the government’s downing of Ukrainian Airline Flight 752.

When a convert from Islam in Iran was sentenced to two years in exile in Sarbaz last year, the judge warned him that religious extremists in the remote desert town would treat him harshly.

When Ebrahim Firoozi arrived in November to southwest Iran near the border with Pakistan, though, he discovered the fear the judge had tried to instill in him was unfounded – local Muslims were helpful, open and hospitable, the Christian said in a recent online interview.

A petition is calling for the release of an Iranian pastor imprisoned for allegedly evangelizing to Muslims. As conditions in the Evin prison decline amid the coronavirus pandemic, the risk level of the pastor contracting the virus increases.

An Assyrian Christian was released from an Iranian prison along with 85,000 other prisoners in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Despite widespread persecution against Christians in Iran, Christians in the country are boldly expressing their faith in a Satellite television program called Signals.