Religious Persecution

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” ...

Four Christians have been arrested in Nepal, including a United States citizen, months after a controversial law criminalizing religious conversion went into effect ...

Nigeria's Christian community has been rocked yet again by a vicious assault at the hands of the Islamic Fulani militants, […]

The Prime minister and foreign secretary used their Easter messages to highlight the cause of persecuted Christians around the world, despite the heads of the ...

It is said that Swedish authorities can “'legally' kidnap your child” and place him in their foster-care system (which already has a problem with child abuse).

Commentary St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church is located in Chino, California, a small city roughly 35 miles east ...

After over 10 years of ministering to prisoners in China, the family of American pastor David Lin is finally raising awareness and calling on the Chinese ...

Sudan's military has overthrown and arrested the country's long-time anti-Christian dictator, President Omar al-Bashir, and it has taken charge of the country for ...

As the polls open for India's general election, Christians there are said to be fearful of rigging and further persecution.

The San Antonio City Council recently approved an amendment to a seven-year agreement that includes removing Chick-fil-A from any concessions in the local ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Western forces are trying to use Christianity to influence China's society and even “subvert” the government, a senior official said, warning ...