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February 9, 2022
Not only have many Christians left, but those who remain are in a dire situation. In the words of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew...
February 8, 2022
Muslims make up 90% of the population of Bangladesh; Hindus comprise 8.5%, Buddhists 0.6%, and Christians only 0.4%. For more...
February 7, 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...
February 6, 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...
February 5, 2022
The desecration of Mor Aday Church in Idil district of Sirnak province demonstrates the same contempt for the Christian history and heritage of Asia...
February 4, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
February 3, 2022
There are thousands of applications for permits to build churches that have not yet been approved. Christians encounter opposition from government...
February 2, 2022
Pakistan is home to over two million Christians. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the...
February 1, 2022
The U.S. State Department has classified Iran as a “country of particular concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations...
January 31, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
January 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...
January 29, 2022
For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in India, see here. “Families Forced to Convert or Flee After...
January 28, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
January 27, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
January 26, 2022
The disturbing treatment of Bashir Sengendo by his brother and uncle illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the occasion...
January 25, 2022
Despite the fact that Kenya is 80% Christian (including over 600,000 Orthodox Christians), the Christians are subjected to periodic persecution...
January 24, 2022
For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in China, see here. “Editorial: New regulations for online...
January 23, 2022
There are roughly 300,000 Christians in Iran. Most of them are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Other Christians in Iran are members of the...
January 22, 2022
Tanzania is 61% Christian; 51% of those Christians are Roman Catholics. For information about the Orthodox Church in Tanzania, which is under the...
January 21, 2022
As we have documented many times here at ChristianPersecution.com, the kidnapping and forced conversion of young Christian and other girls from...