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December 19, 2021
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 18, 2021
Christians, mostly Roman Catholics, constitute 59% of Mozambique’s population; Muslims comprise 19%. However, the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun to...
December 17, 2021
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Pakistan, see here. For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in...
December 16, 2021
Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of Myanmar. The overwhelming majority of these are Protestants, with Roman Catholics...
December 15, 2021
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 14, 2021
The Theological School of Halki was forcibly closed down by Turkish authorities in 1971. Since its closure, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has had to...
December 13, 2021
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...
December 12, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party is working actively and on numerous fronts to destroy Christianity and replace it in the hearts, minds, and souls of the...
December 11, 2021
The U.S. State Department has classified Iran as a “country of particular concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations...
December 10, 2021
This story illustrates the insecurity and fear with which many non-Christian governing authorities the world over regard Christianity. They are aware...
December 9, 2021
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...
December 8, 2021
Pakistan is home to over two million Christians. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the...
December 7, 2021
For more ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in Myanmar, see here. “A Pentecostal Church in Chin State Burned...
December 6, 2021
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 5, 2021
The Chinese government continues its efforts to transform Christianity into a tool of the state. China offers yet another instance of the persecution...
December 4, 2021
After years of strife, by 2014 it was reported that 90% of the Orthodox Christians of Iraq had been displaced. Most of them are still refugees and...
December 3, 2021
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 2, 2021
An Yankui is accused of illegally crossing the national border, even though he went to Malaysia on an official Chinese passport. These arrests...
December 2, 2021
“District authorities are asking church ministers and other Christian workers to appear before officials and explain their activities.”...
November 30, 2021
Christianity has been in India since apostolic times, brought there by St. Thomas the Apostle in A.D. 52, as attested by St. Ephraim, St. John...