A new report by Open Doors International said that more than 380 million Christians faced persecution and discrimination in 2024, an increase of 15 million from the year before. The report, titled ...

THE persecution of Christians in Iran is an increasingly urgent matter in need of investigation, Article 18, a UK-based religious-freedom organisation, reports. In The Tip of the Iceberg, it describes ...

(RNS) — Driven by Islamic extremism, authoritarian regimes and war, high-level persecution and discrimination impacted 380 million Christians around the world in 2024, according to the annual ...

Many Christians around the world see persecution as a blessing ... to gravitate toward the idea of physical violence, such as martyrdom, assault, or the burning of a church building.

"We are slain with the sword, but we increase and multiply; the more we are persecuted and ... in the witness of Christians who “preferred truth to life.” Martyrdom was for him the highest ...

This persecution has intensified in the past four years. Christians among the Chin, Kachin, Karen, and Karenni people face severe restrictions and persecution. Since the coup, over 300 churches ...

Saint Anysia is venerated primarily within the Eastern Orthodox Church in regions influenced by Byzantine culture.

Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the head of the Hungary Helps program, said Hungary has helped more than two million Christians in a difficult situation or ...

Portrait of Saint Agatha, by Cariani, 1517, Oil on canvas © National Galleries, Scotland. Source: Christian Art. Gospel of 5 ...

The situation is improving in Indonesia. Rome (AsiaNews) – Anti-Christian persecution is growing all over the world. Over a year, the number of heavily persecuted and discriminated Christians ...

The vice chancellor of Nigeria’s Veritas University, a priest in the Awka Diocese, has encouraged journalists in the west African nation to expose Christian persecution, which is at its highest ...