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April 11, 2022
The disturbing treatment of Hiire Sadiki by his wife and neighbor illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the occasion for...
April 10, 2022
According to International Christian Concern, the Democratic Republic of Congo is “a predominately Christian nation….While a large majority (85-90%)...
April 9, 2022
The Nigerian government officials who should be protecting the Christians appear to be powerless to do so, or uninterested in doing so. For...
April 8, 2022
The Turkish government’s decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque in 2020 was a deeply ill-advised act of memoricide that ignores Turkey’s rich...
April 8, 2022
On March 6, 2022, ChristianPersecution.com reported about the arrest of these men. Then on March 13, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided...
April 6, 2022
ChristianPersecution.com reported on March 29 about the abduction of another priest, and on March 16 about the kidnapping of still another. The...
April 5, 2022
In Myanmar as elsewhere in Asia, Christianity is generally considered to be an alien faith. Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of...
April 4, 2022
Pakistan is home to over two million Christians. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the...
April 3, 2022
There is a small community of about 2,500 Orthodox Christians in Indonesia. For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of...
April 2, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
April 1, 2022
This story is illustrative of another aspect of the persecution of Christians in Egypt and elsewhere: officials who should be protecting Christian...
March 31, 2022
Here yet again we see indifference or worse from the authorities who ought to be protecting the Christians. We have also seen harassment by officials...
March 31, 2022
The savagery and inhumanity of the persecution of Christians worldwide is epitomized by this story. Each account of Christian persecution we report...
March 29, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
March 28, 2022
Muslims make up 90% of the population of Bangladesh; Hindus comprise 8.5%, Buddhists 0.6%, and Christians only 0.4%. For more...
March 27, 2022
This raid was ostensibly looking for anti-regime activity, but it is no accident that the church was targeted: Myanmar is another country in which...
March 26, 2022
The Nigerian government officials who should be protecting the Christians appear to be powerless to do so, or uninterested in doing so. For...
March 25, 2022
The U.S. State Department has classified Iran as a “country of particular concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations...
March 24, 2022
“Is the Nigerian government complicit in these attacks?’ Time will tell, but for this long time watcher, the decision is in.” The...
March 23, 2022
The disturbing treatment of Juma Waiswa, Nasimu Naigaga, and Amina Nagudi by their relatives illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is...