Religion Clause

Yesterday the White House issued a statement ( full text ) from President Biden and the First Lady extending best wishes to everyone celebra...

At the end of its 50th annual session on July 8, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Nazila Ghanea as Special Rapporteur on Fr...

Yesterday, President Biden and Jill Biden issued a statement extending New Years greetings for  Nowruz . The Statement ( full text ) reads i...

In a March 9 press release , the International Federation for Human Rights reported on a recently discovered set of minutes ( full text in E...

Britain's appellate court that reviews decisions on visa and asylum applications and the right to enter or stay in the UK-- the Upper Tr...

NBC News reports that U.S. authorities have recently allowed about a dozen Armenian Christian refugees from Iran admission under the Lauten...

Yesterday's Los Angeles Times reports on the massive slowdown in U.S. approvals of refugee status for Iranian Christians and other Iran...

In TF and MA v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ,  (Scot. Ct. Sess., Aug. 30, 2018), Scotland's Inner House, Court of Session...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release last week calling attention to some 100 Iranian Christians who...

Last week (Dec. 21), the United States Senate passed by unanimous consent Senate Resolution 139  condemning Iran's state-sponsored pers...

According to today's Jerusalem Post , Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has questioned Saudi Arabia's continued contr...

Reflecting continuing tension between the two countries, on Sunday Iran announced that it will not allow its citizens to travel to Saudi Ara...

AlJazeera reported yesterday that Iranian Muslims may miss out on the Hajj this September because Iran and Saudi Arabia have been unable to...

As reported by Al Jazeera , on Monday Iran's President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Italy to begin a four-day European trip that will also ...

According to the Straits Times , Iran's Attorney-General Ibrahim Raeesi yesterday said that his country will file a lawsuit in internati...

Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a reception in the East Room of the White House to mark Nowruz .  The holiday, with roots in Zor...

In Aghaian v. Minassian , (CA App., Feb. 17, 2015), a California state appellate court held that Iranian citizens living in the United State...

On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York announced that the federal district court has approved a U...

On Dec.12, two subcommittees of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee held a joint hearing on "Iran’s Persecution of American Pastor...