Christian persecution

Western powers, including the United States, are tentatively opening lines of communication to the new rulers of Syria — an alliance of Islamists led by an al-Qaeda splinter group whose boss is, inconveniently, a designated terrorist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head.

Syrian Christians are living in “trauma” following the recent jihadist takeover of Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, reports a major Christian persecution watchdog group.

Humanitarian groups are concerned that the surprise offensive launched by al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against the Syrian government last week could put Syrian Christians in even greater danger, and they were already struggling to survive after a decade of civil war and the rise of the Islamic State.

Fifteen years ago, in Northeast Nigeria, Pastor Ohji delivered what would be his last, greatest and shortest sermon.

Hundreds of prominent buildings around the world were illuminated in red on November 20 to mark Red Wednesday, an annual event in support of persecuted Christians.

The communist regime in Nicaragua banished Monsignor Carlos Herrera, Bishop of Jinotega and head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), from the country, local outlets reported on Thursday.

Religiously motivated hate crimes against Christians in Europe jumped by a whopping 226 percent in just one year, according to a grim report by a prominent Christian persecution monitoring group.

Donald Trump declared Friday that Kamala Harris has “lost the Catholic vote,” noting her dismal polling numbers among Catholics, a demographic that acts as a reliable bellwether of the election results.

The president of International Christian Concern (ICC) urged Christians in America to vote for former President Donald Trump.

Six Christian churches in Europe suffered arson attacks in the space of just one week, reveals a report released Monday by a prominent Christian persecution monitoring group.

Pope Francis has condemned the Islamist massacre of hundreds of civilians in the African nation of Burkina Faso, calling the attack “heinous.”

The Vatican said this weekend it was “saddened” by the drag queen parody of the Last Supper on display during the July 26 opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, after critics complained loudly over the Vatican’s silence on the matter.

Organizers of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have issued a non-apology apology for any offense “taken” by Christians from a drag queen parody of Jesus’ Last Supper.

The French bishops have released a statement expressing their consternation over the anti-Christian parody of the Last Supper at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris Friday night.

Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron has denounced the drag queen parody of the Last Supper for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics as a “gross mockery” of Christianity.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has come under fire from a number of faith-based groups for her well-known record of “anti-Catholic bigotry.”

A U.N. group revealed in a report that Nicaragua banned nearly 8,000 Catholic processions between 2023 and 2024.

International Christian Concern (ICC), an organization dedicated to combatting religious persecution around the world, issued a statement on Monday declaring that President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 American presidential race sparks “hope for a renaissance in religious freedom.”

Police in Chhattisgarh, India, have as of Monday done little to respond to the brutal killing of a Christian woman by her Hindu relatives.

Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court has sentenced young Christian Ehsan Shan to death for allegedly reposting a blasphemous image of a desecrated Quran on social media.

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will canonize eleven Christians hacked to pieces by radical Muslims in 1860 rather than renounce their faith in Jesus.

The spread of terrorism and Islamic extremism in Africa is a cause of “great suffering and pain” for Christians, per the ACN.

Father Mikah Suleiman was abducted by armed gunmen in northwest Nigeria this weekend, the third such kidnapping of a Christian pastor in the past month.

Nigeria has been experiencing a “surge” in anti-Christian violence, including numerous kidnappings and murders. These are often carried out execution style, according to recent reports.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin praised the “dignity and courage” of the communist regime of North Korea.

A California Christian club is fighting to put their cross back on display after city officials used eminent domain to remove it while citing complaints of it being “reminiscent of KKK cross-burnings” and offensive to “diverse communities.”

Two masked gunmen entered St. Patrick Catholic Church in the town of Mohnyin, Myanmar, on Friday morning during services and fired a volley of bullets at the parish priest, Father Paul Hkwi Shane Aung. Aung was hit three times but survived the attack.

“Our nation has to stand for what it believes,” Pastor Jon Britton Hancock, wanted in Nicaragua for preaching, told Breitbart News on Tuesday.

A Presbyterian church in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, caught fire shortly after services on Good Friday, forcing the local Christian population to hold Easter services in a hotel and raising suspicions of arson.

Cuba reportedly banned Christians from celebrating traditional Catholic Holy Week processions across several regions of the country.

The Hindu nationalist government of northern Manipur, India, issued a decree on Wednesday declaring Easter Sunday a work day, triggering widespread outrage and forcing officials to revoke the order a day later.

Sri Lanka will mark its fifth Easter since the harrowing April 21, 2019, jihadist suicide bombings that killed 275 people and injured dozens of others, deliberately targeting crowded churches and popular hotel brunch spots.

The communist regime in Nicaragua announced the conviction of 11 pastors associated with the Evangelical Mountain Gateway ministry and humanitarian organization, this week on dubious and unspecified charges of “money laundering,” sentencing the accused to between 12 and 15 years in prison.

Violent gangs in Haiti have kidnapped “a lot” of Catholic priests and churchgoers in the past week, Chrisitan outlets reported on Monday.

The United States has experienced a significant rise in attacks on Christian churches over the past five years according to a new report by the Family Research Council (FRC).

Armed jihadists killed at least 15 Christians during Sunday morning worship in a Burkina Faso village church, Vatican News reported.