The Threatening Situation of Christians and House Churches in Iran
Christians and house churches in Iran have been seriously threatened by the Islamic Republic government.
Iranian authorities severely suppress the right to freedom of religion or belief. Iranian Christians, especially those not recognized by the Islamic Republic of Iran, are subjected to arbitrary detention, widespread torture and ill-treatment, unfair trials, and in many cases, long prison sentences.
The Iranian Constitution recognizes Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians as religious minorities and states that they are free to practice their religious rituals within the limits of the law; however, the government of the Islamic Republic has not recognized a large portion of Persian-speaking Christians in recent years and every year interrogates, arrests, and issues severe sentences to a significant number of Christians for ideological reasons.
But following the nationwide protests in Iran, which the Islamic Republic government calls riots and attributes the origin of these protests to foreign and enemy factors, it has recently put another operation on its agenda to suppress the Iranian people.
According to a reliable report from our correspondent in Iran, the Islamic Republic government has identified Christians and house churches as the source of these protests and has sent people as influencers among the people so that they can identify house churches and Christians and take steps to round up house churches and arrest Christians.
Christians who have always been persecuted, oppressed and oppressed by the Islamic Republic government and in most cases have been deprived of the right to have a job, the right to education and have been subjected to unjust sentences such as flogging, confiscation of property, exile, lack of fair trial. The Islamic Republic of Iran government not only does not allow freedom of belief in Iran, but has also tortured, imprisoned, killed and persecuted many Christians, Baha'is, Dervishes and Sunni Muslims for their beliefs and opinions in a judicial manner. And now it has not sat silent and intends to identify and collect all house churches.
In this chaotic situation, where the Islamic Republic government is committing every crime to maintain its monarchy, the human duty of the Iranian people is to continue to stand together and in unity, regardless of differences in culture and belief, and not allow the Islamic Republic regime to commit another crime by attacking Christians.
Will a government that has no qualms about killing innocent children and encroaches on people's lives, property, and honor spare the lives of innocent Christians whose beliefs are valuable to them?
