persecution

The 2021 World Watch List revealed revealed troubling statistics for Christians facing persecution. But despite all this, David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, says the numbers show an incredible resilience among believers.

Pastor Andrew Brunson, a missionary to Turkey who was unjustly imprisoned for two years, said recently that American Christians need to be prepared for imminent persecution. Brunson said that he feels "an urgency for this country" that has been growing over the last few years.

Beijing’s treatment of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang Province qualifies, in every way, as genocide. Writing in Newsweek, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky didn’t hesitate to call the Communist Party’s actions “genocide,” pointing especially to the “forced sterilizations, abortions and intrusive birth prevention.” These actions alone meet the requirement for genocide and have led to “the population growth rates in the two largest Uyghur prefectures [to fall] by 84% between 2015 and 2018.”

In a meeting with the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on Tuesday, a member of the China Tribunal testified that the Chinese government is actively harvesting organs from persecuted persons in the country.

A Turkish court freed several foreign prisoners Wednesday but rejected the latest appeal from Pastor Andrew Brunson to be released from house arrest.

Every Sunday I get up and go to church without fearing for my life or safety. I can hardly imagine a world where these things aren’t considered normal.

Before Boko Haram began growing into a prominent terrorist force in northeast Nigeria in 2009, its members were trying to kill a highly effective evangelist to ethnic Fulani Muslims.

When we think of religious persecution, the Middle East usually comes to mind. But things have also gotten nasty in Southeast Asia.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a group of 114 Iraqis living in Detroit from deportation.

Though "The Promise" doesn’t release in theaters until this Friday, the film is already battling a storm of negative reviews.