Tag: Persecution

Reportedly 1,470 Christians have been killed and 2,200 kidnapped in Nigeria in the first four months of 2021.

This article appears in Faithfully Magazine No. 1 (Spring 2017. Karen A. Ellis is passionate about human rights, religious freedom, and the persecuted church. She currently serves as an ambassador ...

A church in northern China was demolished this week, the second in less than a month, sparking fears of a wider campaign against Christians as authorities prepare to enforce new ...

A Pakistani Christian man has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he sent a Muslim friend a poem on WhatsApp that he claimed insulted Islam.

Pakistani police have detained and imprisoned a teenager for allegedly burning pages of the Quran outside a shrine, according to officials.

There are over eight million Jehovah’s Witnesses in 240 countries. Russia, with a population of more than 150 million, has a total of 117,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses.

A roundup of Iraqi Christians by immigration officials has been met with criticism toward Trump, who previously pledged to protect such communities from persecution in the Middle East.