IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the US annual report on religious freedom in the world as clear interference in other countries' internal affairs and based on misinformation, saying that the report indicates the ignorance and misunderstanding of situation in Iran regarding the rights of religious minorities. Commenting ...

MNA Author of Religious Freedom in Islam Philpott says that religious freedom is present in the Muslim world and that Islam is not inherently hostile to it. Daniel Philpott, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, says if a religion can be shown to be hospitable to religious freedom, then we can say that it is ...

MNA The Representative of Assyrian and Chaldean communities in the Iranian Parliament said that Iran is a rainbow of world religions and all monotheistic religions are living in peace here. Yonathan Betkolia made the remarks on Wednesday night at a gathering of Christian citizens with Tehran Mayor Priouz Hanachi that was held at Tehran Book Garden....

RT- China has blasted wanton criticism from the US over religious freedom, saying that Washington confuses the facts and is itself far from perfect. The statement comes following a US State Department report on religious freedom worldwide. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commented on the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report ...

Irans Foreign Ministry has rejected as invalid a report by the US Department of State on religious freedom in Iran. The clichd report" by the US Department of State is the repetition of the accusations which the Islamic Republic of Iran has on different occasions rejected as "totally false, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Thursday....

Thousands of Jewish families from all over Iran have convened in the central Iranian city of Yazd to perform a special pilgrimage, Press TV reports. The Jewish families gathered at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, which was built more than a hundred years ago, to perform their prayers early in the morning on November 20. They shed tears and prayed for ...

Many efforts have been and will be made to portray a permissible face of Qom on the national and international stage, and turn it into a model of the Islamic Iranian city, whether from the perspective of appearance and urban development or from a cultural and social perspective. From the speeches and focus of Qoms sources of emulation and religious ...

Iran may be the worlds only modern theocracy, but the Islamic Republics constitution actually mandates a political role for three religious minorities. Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians all have seats in the 290-seat parliament proportionate to their populations: Two seats for Armenian Christians, One for Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, One ...