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November 3, 2021

China: 600 Christians Sentenced in 2021

The Chinese government continues its efforts to transform Christianity into a tool of the state. China offers yet another instance of the persecution...

November 2, 2021

Myanmar junta shells largely Christian town, two churches and 160 houses burned

Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of Myanmar. The overwhelming majority of these are Protestants, with Roman Catholics...

November 1, 2021

United Nations States that Christians in China Are ‘at Risk of Torture’

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...

October 31, 2021

India: Christian Families Attacked and Driven from Village

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...

October 30, 2021

Iran: Christian prisoners of conscience ask ‘Where can I worship after I’m released?’

The Iranian government targets converts to Christianity because it considers them to be apostate and threats to the state. The U.S. State Department...

October 29, 2021

Algeria: Christian sentenced to prison for ‘luring people to convert to Christianity’

This story illustrates the insecurity and fear with which many non-Christian governing authorities the world over regard Christianity. They are aware...

October 28, 2021

Uganda: Muslim Relatives Beat, Starve Christians

The disturbing treatment of Mustafa Obbo and Jafalan Muduwa by their relatives illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the...

October 27, 2021

UN team calls for urgent release from jail of mentally disabled Pakistani Christian

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, as we see here yet again, are frequently used to threaten and intimidate vulnerable religious minority communities. For...

October 27, 2021

Nigeria: 40 Christians killed in coordinated attack

For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...

October 24, 2021

India: Police Beat Christians in Custody in Uttar Pradesh

ChristianPersecution.com has documented numerous incidents in which Christians are persecuted by the very officials who should be protecting them...

October 24, 2021

Libya: At least 17 Egyptian Coptic Christians go missing, families fear they were targeted because of their faith

The the majority of Christians in Libya are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church; Greek Orthodox Christians in Libya are under the jurisdiction of...

October 22, 2021

Iran: Christian convert refused parole again despite assurances

The Iranian government targets converts to Christianity because it considers them to be apostate and threats to the state. That is why some converts...

October 22, 2021

Myanmar: Military Destroys a Church after Failing to Set it Ablaze

Christians make up about 8.2 percent of the population of Myanmar. Most of these Christians are Protestants, with Roman Catholics comprising most of...

October 21, 2021

Pakistan: Two Christian brothers shot dead by Muslims in dispute over water

Pakistan is home to over two million Christians. A small number of these Christians are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the...

October 20, 2021

Turkey: Restoration of Historic Orphanage of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Stalled

The Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage has been returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate by the Turkish government after a ruling from the European...

October 19, 2021

Myanmar: Church damaged by military shelling, fifth church attacked by the military in five months

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...