Christians Residing in Stockholm Gather on International Migrants Day

Christians residing in Stockholm gathered on the occasion of International Migrants Day.

December 18 is International Migrants Day, when many people around the world decide for various reasons to leave their homeland and family and migrate to foreign lands. Among them, many Iranian Christians who are deprived of freedom of religion, belief, and faith in their own country Iran and face government pressure every day, are forced unwillingly to leave their homeland and families so they can freely worship their God.

For this purpose, many Christian migrants residing in Stockholm gathered yesterday on the occasion of International Migrants Day in this country. They announced a message addressed to the world in this gathering. In this message, they said: “Over the past 45 years, thousands of Iranians have lost their lives in migration, and the Islamic Republic is solely responsible for it. The Islamic Republic does not recognize Christian converts; they are deprived of many basic, fundamental, and human rights in Iran.

The lack of right to education, right to work, and the lack of a place to worship are among these rights. Today, thousands of Christian converts are scattered around the world far from their homeland due to the anti-Christian policies of the Islamic Republic, and they live with great difficulty.

This is a fact: the Islamic Republic is the enemy of Iran and Iranians. Honoring the International Day of Migrants and Migration.”

For years, the Islamic Republic has been violating human rights, invading people’s privacy, pressuring religious minorities, arresting, torturing and imprisoning them, organized repression, countless executions, denying freedom of speech and belief, and more. In addition to turning Iran into an open prison for its people, it has caused the age of migration among young people to decrease to such an extent that many students are also unwillingly deciding to migrate so they can build their future.