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November 20, 2018
According to the Orthodox Christianity website, “In 1951, Nepal’s census showed no—that would be zero—Christians in the country. Ten years...
November 18, 2018
In the Central African Republic, as in many other countries, even though the Christian population is in the majority it is still vulnerable to...
November 16, 2018
Copts make up roughly 10 percent of the Egyptian population. They have been the target of revenge attacks by Muslim mobs ever since Egypt’s...
November 14, 2018
Here yet again we see it: the police and even governing officials in countries where Christians face persecution all too often sympathize not with...
November 12, 2018
“His wife was against the idea and she threatened him that leaving Islam would attract grievous measures from their family.” This turned out to be...
November 12, 2018
Both the Islamic militant group Boko Haram and Muslim Fulani herdsmen are targeting the Christians of Nigeria (among whom is a small number of...
November 10, 2018
Please keep Asia Bibi in your prayers: this is an especially dangerous time for her. Many people who have been accused of blasphemy in Pakistan have...
November 10, 2018
Nigeria is about 50% Christian. Of those Christians, around 75% are Protestant, 24% Roman Catholic. Of the remaining 1%, there is a small Orthodox...
November 10, 2018
Here again we see one of the most distressing aspects of the persecution of Christians, not just in India, but in all too many countries: the police...
November 10, 2018
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recently released its 2018 Annual Report, which documents violations of religious...
November 10, 2018
The Archbishop “argued that because there is no Christian equivalent for words such as anti-Semitism and Islamophobia the problem was...
November 8, 2018
Sudan is a majority-Muslim country, although the area that is modern-day Sudan was long ago a Christian stronghold. Most Sudanese Christians today...
November 4, 2018
There are over two million Christians in Pakistan. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox, under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Orthodox...
November 4, 2018
This ban amounts to a new death sentence for Asia Bibi, the Catholic woman who was on death row in Pakistan for years for saying to a group of Muslim...
November 2, 2018
Following close on the heels of its persecution of American Protestant Pastor Andrew Brunson comes this, the Turkish government’s imminent...
November 2, 2018
We are in prayer for our brothers and sisters of the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church in Egypt as they are persecuted for their faith in our Lord and...
November 2, 2018
Targeting the Christians of Nigeria are both the Islamic militant group Boko Haram and Muslim Fulani herdsmen. When these groups kidnap Christians,...
November 1, 2018
This poor woman, Asia Bibi, has been on death row for years for saying to a group of Muslim women: “I’m not going to convert. I believe in my...
November 1, 2018
The calculated disrespect of these Turkish students toward their own country’s history and its Christian heritage is a sign of the influence of...
October 29, 2018
One of the worst aspects of the persecution of Christians in all too many countries is that the authorities sympathize not with the victims, but with...