by Open Doors Philippines | Dec 15, 2020 | Iran, News
In today’s 21st-century Iran, the church is increasingly under intensifying persecution from both society and the state, as Christianity—and anyone involved in spreading it—is seen as a threat to the Republic’s Islamic identity. But like the early church...
by Open Doors Philippines | Oct 8, 2020 | Iran, Middle East, News
Photo credits: Article 18 Participating in a house church in Iran. This was their crime that would imprison them for the next 10 years of their lives. While they received no official trial (not uncommon for Christians arrested for house church involvement), they were...
by Open Doors Philippines | Sep 23, 2020 | Iran, News
In the past two decades, Open Doors has received almost weekly reports of Christians in Iran imprisoned for leading house churches or being part of a house church. When the Iranian revolution of 1979 established a hardline Islamic regime, the next 20 years ushered in...
by Open Doors Philippines | Jul 17, 2020 | Iran, Middle East, News, Prayer, Stories
Christianity is seen as a Western influence and a threat in Iran Iranian authorities have made 12 arrests after infiltrating a secret meeting of 30 believers. Please pray for and with our Iranian brothers and sisters. It is believed an informant gained the Christians’...
by Open Doors Philippines | Jun 16, 2020 | Iran, Middle East, News, Prayer
Our field recently shared how secret Christians in Iran are reaching out to their communities that have been hit so hard by coronavirus and the impact of the lockdowns. Despite the risk of being jailed, imprisoned or even killed if their participation in a house...
by Open Doors Philippines | Sep 5, 2019 | Iran, News
In photo: Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram Issavi Khabizeh “On 26 August, MEC requested prayer for an appeal court hearing scheduled for 3 September in which three separate cases would be considered. The judge failed to attend the hearing and so...
