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China is launching a new campaign to rid the country of "illegal social organizations," a category that includes millions of Christians who worship in illegal house churches. According to International Christian Concern, the new campaign targets...
According to a new report by religious freedom charity Release International, persecution is expected to increase in parts of Africa, North Korea, Afghanistan and India in 2022. The report, titled Persecution Trends 2022, highlights several persecution...
Chinese officials forcibly removed crosses from more than 90 fishing boats owned by Christians in July while allowing ships with symbols from other religions to leave the dock, according to a report from a religious...
The conservative group representing Colorado baker Jack Phillips vowed to appeal after a judge sided with the plaintiff, a transgender woman, on Tuesday following Phillips' refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. "In this case, an...
 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Saturday (April 1) killed at least seven Christians in Benue state, Nigeria, bringing the total to more than 60 villagers slain in the past month, sources said. Assailants killed...
A Christian school in Colorado has agreed to implement various measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 among its students and staff after receiving an order from local health officials threatening closure if steps aren't...
Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith called on his colleagues Wednesday to recognize that 120,000 Armenian Christians living in Nagorno-Karabakh are facing extinction. “Delay is denial,” Smith, who chaired the emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh as co-chair of the...
Christians in Nigeria are calling for urgent action after a "nightmare" string of attacks. The president of the Evangelical Church Winning (ECWA), Rev Dr Stephen Baba Panya, compared the violence in Irigwe, Plateau State, to a "genocide", with...
China’s government in recent days continued its clampdown on Christianity within cyberspace by banning various Bible apps and shutting down WeChat Christian public accounts, according to a new report. International Christian Concern reported May 1 that Christian...
A letter has been sent by eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Rashad Hussain, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, expressing their concerns about the U.K.'s treatment of Christians and their...