Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest July Christians Over 50 Christians in five cities arrested in new crackdown Article 18 (18.07.2023) – More than 50 Christian converts have been arrested in a rash of new incidents across five Iranian cities over...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
YEMEN: USCIRF calls for immediate release of 17 Baha’is forcibly disappeared by the Houthis USCIRF (02.06.2023) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns last week’s Houthi attack on a peaceful gathering of Yemeni Baha’is in Sana’a....
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest May Christians ‘We use money that could feed hungry Muslims to restore Christian churches’ – tourism minister Article 18 (26.05.2023) – In the week of the 10th anniversary of the forced closure of the largest...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest April Christians Christian convert whose son has leukaemia released from prison Article 18 (28.04.2023) – A 50-year-old Christian convert whose son has been battling leukaemia for five years was...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: Oppressed in life and persecuted in death: Baha’is prevented from dignified burials in their own cemetery Bahá’í International Community (03.04.2023) – A brazen and barbaric act by the Iranian authorities has emerged in recent days in Tehran. A...