Saudi convert to Christianity faces two court cases amid threats of violence

15 March 2021 A Christian convert in Saudi Arabia is facing two court cases as well as threats of violence against him and his family. The convert, named only as “A”, appeared in court on 11 March 2021 on charges of trying to convert Muslims. The charges arose from a conversation a restaurant in 2020, in which

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

The Holocaust is only one example of genocide… Between 1893 and 1923, some 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire in a policy of extermination of Christian minorities. In addition some 2.25 million Assyrian, Greek and Syriac Christians were also killed within Ottoman territories between 1914 and 1923, making a total of 3.75

Four more Iranian believers sentenced

Details have emerged of the harsh treatment of four Christian converts sentenced in October to a combined 35 years in prison. Mehdi Akbari, Fatemeh Sharifi and Simin Soheilinia were each sentenced to ten years in prison and Mehdi Roohparvar to five, all on the same charge of “acting against national security by forming a house-church”. Mehdi and

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Lashes for taking Communion

IRAN: Mohammadreza Omidi lashed for taking Communion wine On 14 October, Christian convert Mohammadreza Omidi (47) was given eighty lashes for drinking wine as part of Holy Communion. He received a summons on 10 October from the authorities in his home city of Rasht to travel there at his own expense from Borazjan, over 1,000 km away,

IRAN: Authorities continue to harass Ebrahim Firouzi in exile

Originally posted on VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED:
interview screenshot Be encouraged as you read this praise report! Morning Star News) – 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.…

Christian adoptive parents not fit” to be parents!

A court has ruled that the adopted daughter of Christian couple Sam Khosravi and Maryam Falahi, both converts from Islam, must be taken from them as they are “not fit” to be her parents. Sam and Maryam, from Bushehr in southwest Iran, adopted Lydia from an orphanage as a three-month old baby in February 2019.

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Pushtun, Afghanistan.

Pashtun, Northern in Afghanistan pronounced: pahsh-TOON Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, and make up the majority of the Taliban and the current Afghan government. There are at least 30 major tribes, and countless sub-tribes and clans. The Pashtun were the traditional rulers of Afghanistan for over 250 years. The essence of their

Iranian appeals sentences

  We thank God that our Iranian brother Ismaeil Maghrebinejad has had one of three prison sentences overturned and another reduced on appeal. The third sentence was upheld. Ismaeil is now due to serve seven months for ‘propaganda against the state’ and two years for ‘membership of a group hostile to the regime’. The court overturned the three-year