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May 14, 2022
The Iranian government targets converts to Christianity because it considers them to be apostates and threats to the state.  The U.S. State...
May 13, 2022
There is no certainty that the victim said anything at all about Muhammad. This happened based on mere unsubstantiated rumors. For information about...
May 12, 2022
The Nigerian government officials who should be protecting the Christians appear to be powerless to do so, or uninterested in doing so. For...
May 11, 2022
Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of Myanmar. The overwhelming majority of these are Protestants, with Roman Catholics...
May 10, 2022
The modern nation of Algeria is in an area that was once a renowned center of Orthodox Christianity. The holy martyr St. Cyprian of Carthage, Blessed...
May 9, 2022
“When Kafi put his faith in Christ in 2018, his wife’s family sought and won a sharia court decision to dissolve their marriage.”...
May 8, 2022
The U.S. State Department has classified Iran as a “country of particular concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations...
May 7, 2022
Police also seized a bishop days before Western Easter. The Chinese Communist Party is working actively and on numerous fronts to destroy...
May 6, 2022
“The insurgents always come and do whatever they want and go back to come back another day”: the Nigerian government officials who should be...
May 5, 2022
Pakistan is home to over two million Christians. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the...
May 4, 2022
Conversion to Christianity is often the occasion for persecution of Christians, both of the converts and of those who brought the converts the word...
May 3, 2022
The targeting of Hadrut’s Holy Resurrection Church and other churches as well is consistent with Azerbiajan’s erasure of its Christian past, and its...
May 2, 2022
Note that “his relatives suggested sectarian-religious motives in the incident and that the perpetrators of the attack were extremist...
May 1, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
April 30, 2022
The Iranian government targets converts to Christianity because it considers them to be apostate and threats to the state.  The U.S. State Department...
April 29, 2022
During the time of the Emperor Justinian (AD 527-565), Nubia (modern-day Sudan) was a center of Christianity. Today, most of the small minority of...
April 28, 2022
Afghanistan under the Taliban does not acknowledge that any citizen of the country is Christian at all. Most of the Christians in Afghanistan...
April 27, 2022
This raid highlights the impunity of the Chinese government in its efforts to transform Christianity into a tool of the state and is yet another...
April 26, 2022
The disturbing treatment of Zaina Gimbo by her husband illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the occasion for persecution...
April 24, 2022
Abductions and forced conversions of women and girls are designed to ensure that the abductors’ community grows and prospers, while the...