In President Trump’s remarks before the National Prayer Breakfast last week, he spoke movingly about the plight of “millions of people in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and other countries [who] suffer under repressive and brutal regimes. America stands with all people suffering oppression and religious persecution.”
German Roman Catholic Archbishop Ludwig Schick has condemned the violence of Islamic extremist migrants toward Christians and Christian converts, saying that the “highest alertness” is required.
A 22-year-old man armed with a machete attacked a priest and several churchgoers after he stormed a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.
Authorities in communist China have sent more than 100 Christians, mostly converts, from the Muslim Uighur-majority province of Xinjiang to “re-education camps” that teach loyalty to the country’s ruling party, reports Keep the Faith magazine, citing Open Doors, an organization that monitors the persecution of Christians.
Every year, American taxpayers pay nearly $870 million on welfare for foreign refugees who are resettled across the United States by the State Department.
Over a five year period, American taxpayers are billed more than $8 billion for the resettlement of thousands of foreign refugees every year, a new study finds.
Christians turning away from clergy preaching social justice and mass migration haven’t left the church – the church has left them, writes David Kurten.
The BBC has attacked Anglicans after a study revealed that nearly nine out of 10 want immigration levels “reduced”, claiming that Christianity demands support for open borders.
Three French intelligence agencies are alleged to have had prior knowledge of one of the radical Islamic terrorists involved in the killing of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel in 2016 but due to poor communication, never shared their information.
Churchgoers in Tamil Nadu, India, are protesting local officials after police ruled the death of Pastor Gideon Periyaswamy – found hanging in the church with visible signs of beatings – a “suicide.”
Christians and Yazidis in the Syrian city of Afrin are asking for international assistance as Turkish warplanes and artillery hammer Kurdish positions around the city and Turkish ground forces roll across the border.
The 19th century St Lambertus Church in Immerath, Germany, has been torn down despite protests, as mosques and Islamic centres multiply across the country.
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say gunmen have shot dead a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country’s Christian minority.
Muslims are on-track to be the second-largest religious group in the United States by the year 2040, according to new research.
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it would add Pakistan—and ten other countries—to its Special Watch List for severe religious freedom violations, citing the egregious abuse of Christians, Hindus, Ahmadi Muslims, and other minorities in the country.
Former President Obama outpaced President Trump’s first year of foreign refugee admissions in just three months, new data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.
President Trump reduced foreign refugee admissions by roughly 70 percent in nearly the first year of his presidency, a new report reveals.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis has prayed for the victims of attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt.
National Review “let themselves be turned into the propaganda wing of the neo-conservative movement” during the George W. Bush administration, while ignoring the ethnic cleansing of Iraq’s Christian communities under Bush’s watch, said John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream and author of the new “Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism.”
An estimated 50,000 Christians returned home in Iraq in time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas after facing genocide at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who forced them out of their homeland in 2014, reveals the president of the Assyrian Aid Society branch in Iraq (AAS-I).
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”—John 1:1–2, 14 (ESV)
In China, enjoying a Christmas party could mean jail time for the relatives of Communist Party Members.
CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators assaulted an unlicensed church south of Cairo, an Egyptian Coptic Christian diocese said on Saturday, in the latest assault on members of the country’s Coptic minority.
The Muslim mayor of Nazareth has cancelled traditional outdoor songs and plays celebrating Christmas in the city where Jesus spent his childhood.
Volunteers have criticised the Red Cross charity after receiving a communication telling them to remove crucifixes from the walls of their branches as the organisation looks to become more secular.
RABAT, Morocco — Representatives of Morocco’s Jewish community joined other religious minorities on Saturday to urge the government to clarify the law on freedom of worship in Morocco, where Islam is the state religion.
Supermarket giant Tesco has kicked off its Christmas advertising campaign with an advert featuring Sikhs, Muslims, and what appears to be a gay couple with a child, but no obviously Christian characters or iconography.
A Christian NGO has urged the international community to protect minority populations as Iranian-backed Shia militias and Iraqi army continues to persecute Christians in Peshmerga-controlled areas.
President Donald Trump vowed to end leftist attacks on Christian values that threatened the United States.
German supermarket giant Lidl has been caught doctoring images of churches to remove their crosses for a second time.
The Prime Minister of Hungary has urged EU leaders to protect Christianity in Africa and the Middle East, or risk its destruction in Europe.
Evangelist Lou Engle organized the four-day event on the National Mall to call women to take a stand for biblical principles.
A gay coffee shop owner in Seattle kicked a Christian pro-life group out of his coffee shop because he felt offended by their presence, according to video footage of the incident.
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States government is “financing the spoils of genocide” committed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East through a United Nations program that only benefits Sunni Muslims, argued a lawyer who represents the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital Erbil.
The estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a quarter of the population that has allegedly been used to fuel the Muslim-majority status of the once predominantly Christian country, should start returning to Syria, argues the Lebanese president, noting that the regions from which they hail are “now secure.”
A teenager from a Christian family has been beaten to death by Muslim classmates at the MC Model Boys Government High School in Pakistan, allegedly for drinking from the same water cooler as them.
Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate based in Somalia, has claimed responsibility for dressing in local military attire and decapitating up to five Christians in Kenya, where more than 80 percent of the population adheres to the Christian faith.
The communist government of China is once again imposing itself on the nation’s growing religious community, passing new regulations to “sinicize” religion to conform with Chinese communism.
The few Christians who remain in Iraq after losing thousands to genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are once again urging Baghdad to allow them to establish their own independent state in Iraq.
An LGBT activist who blew up a hired van outside the Australian Christian Lobby’s headquarters disliked its “position on sexuality”, according to reports.
