Religious Persecution

After the revocation of Kashmir's special status, Christians in the region are fearful that the change will lead to a wave of Hindu nationalism and with it, ...

Armed groups, guerrillas, militamen, criminal gangs and drug cartels see the church as an enemy to be eradicated”, a pastor says.

Synagogue shootings in the United States to Christians imprisoned in Iran or China, acts of both Anti-Semitism & Christian persecution are rising worldwide.

Thousands of Syrian immigrants in the U.S., including Christians, could be at risk of deportation back to their dangerous and deadly home country as a decision ...

India (MNN) — In India's Jharkhand state, Hindu extremists attacked, beat, and threatened eight believers who refused to recant their faith. David Curry of Open ...

A persecution watchdog is calling on the Nigerian government to launch an investigation into reports that 16-year-old Leah Sharibu, the Nigerian schoolgirl ...

An international human rights NGO has submitted research and data to the International Criminal Court contending that the standard for genocide has now been ...

A Church of England bishop who headed a review into the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's support for persecuted Christians has welcomed the ...

President Donald Trump promised survivors of religious persecution who visited the Oval Office yesterday that he will forever support them in their attempts to ...

Guest columnist Durmomo Gary: It's a hard thing growing up knowing that you can't become who you want to become -- not because you're not smart enough or ...

Iranian security agents stormed into a 100-year-old Assyrian church and tore the cross from its tower in a major city in the north-west of the country on 9 May.

JUBA, South Sudan, June 4, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese ...

The compromises Three-Self churches made with the Chinese government only brought intensified persecution, not peace. Li Changshan “If you don’t follow the government’s demands, the church will be sealed off!” Government officials often threaten Christians in this way to force them to carry out all of the government’s policies. Even making deals with the CCP isn’t proving to be beneficial for the communities of the Three-Self Church, which have sought to make concessions with the party in order to keep the peace. Instead, the government’s crackdown on religion is just too powerful, too mena...

While you might have seen a decrease in mainstream media reporting regarding Christian persecution, there has only been an increase in the persecution ...

A number of Christian refugees have been denied asylum in Sweden after failing a difficult theology-based quiz which is administered by immigration authorities ...

A pastor's case took three years to be settled by an Indian court, but now his acquittal is being hailed as a triumph by Christian persecution watch groups.

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Christianity is under persecution now more than ever. According to the Tablet, a study shows that one-third of the world's population are victims of persecution, ...

An estimated 80 percent of all persecuted religious believers around the world are Christians, according to new British report that also says the level of ...

At least 100 Christians in Nigeria were killed and hundreds of others injured in April, according to a human rights watchdog group warning that Fulani attacks ...

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of family members and sympathizers on Saturday (April 27) attended a funeral in northeastern Nigeria for eight ...

Photo Credit: Morning Star News (Morning Star News) – More than a month after men claiming to be Maoists in Nepal assaulted Dhurba Kumar Pariyar, the ...

A pastor, two of his sons and three other worshippers died. “Europe must stand united against the persecution of Christians in Africa”, said Antonio Tajani, ...

Hundreds of family members and sympathizers on Saturday (April 27) attended a funeral in northeastern Nigeria for eight young Christians, six of them minors, ...

Christian groups in parts of Russia are concerned that persecution against their communities could be spreading, after a Baptist pastor was charged for “illegal” ...