Christian Persecution

Syriac Orthodox Christians in the northeastern city of Hasakeh celebrated on Saturday the inauguration of Archbishop Maurice Amseeh, giving the community a bishop for the first time in four years, since the last one left the country. Christians have been the subject of a genocidal campaign by... Read more

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain did not uphold principles of religious freedom in 2016, while Islamic State has carried out "genocide" against religious minorities, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Tillerson made the comments at the... Read more

Two years after its release, this still photo, taken from an ISIS propaganda video, remains as haunting as ever: a long line of Christian Coptic men in orange jump suits, forced to kneel and await execution simply for being Christian and refusing to renounce their religious beliefs. Even as the... Read more

There is no saint that has a greater impact upon my spiritual life than St. Maximilian Kolbe. This fact is ironic as early on in my conversion to Catholicism I did not like him at all. I thought he looked too stern in his pictures, and that he talked too much about the Immaculata, a title for... Read more

After more than two and half years, North Korea has released a Toronto megachurch pastor the regime imprisoned and accused of attempting to establish a religious state. Though Hyeon-Soo Lim was issued a life sentence to hard labor, his health suffered and North Korea agreed to release the... Read more

MUMBAI, India - Christians in India usually suffer double discrimination: Not only do they suffer persecution because of their religion, but since the vast majority of Christians are Dalits - once known as “untouchables” - they also suffer harassment because of their  caste. In India,... Read more

Washington D.C., Aug 9, 2017 / 06:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- What can a missionary in North Korea do to preach the Gospel in a Communist dictatorship? Simply care for the sick patients he is there to help, says one priest in that situation. “We are the message of the Gospel, and we try to... Read more

ROME - Armed guerrillas continue to fight each other, terrorizing the Central African Republic. Some 50 people were reportedly killed on Tuesday in a village some 45 miles from Bangassou, according to the Spanish missionary bishop who is protecting 2,100 displaced Muslims from the Christian... Read more

Muslim refugees in the Middle East are converting to Christianity after finding that God is 'real'. Missionaries revealed that the harrowing acts caused by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which the group openly declares as actions taught to them by the Koran, are helping Muslims... Read more

MUMBAI, India - Another state in India is preparing to pass an anti-conversion law, as minorities accuse the Hindu-nationalist government of discriminating against non-Hindus. Jharkhand is in eastern India, and less than 5 percent of its population is Christian. However, over a quarter of the... Read more