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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...
March 22, 2022
Note that “the increase in violence and abductions in the state had continued for so long that it now appeared normal.” The Nigerian...
March 21, 2022
This decision from the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers is correct. Coupled with the policy of pillage, destruction and desecration of the...
March 20, 2022
Many Hindus believe that conversion to Christianity is an attack on their culture and way of life, and an imminent threat to both, despite the fact...
March 20, 2022
Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of Myanmar. The overwhelming majority of these are Protestants, with Roman Catholics...
March 18, 2022
Christians make up around 85% of Uganda’s population. There is a tiny minority of around 35,000 Orthodox Christians in that nation. Converts to...
March 17, 2022
This incident at Surp Takavor Church in Istanbul and the acquittal of the perpetrators demonstrates the same contempt for the Christian history and...
March 16, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...