Persecution

Human rights defender Chen Yunfei (陈云飞), who served an eight-year prison term and was released last year, suffered a violent assault on January 8, 2026. At...

By Bella Agnello -- In a village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, a pastor was arrested and forced from his community for refusing to...

A mother of three in Somalia fled her home after her Muslim husband learned she had accepted Christ, but he later also converted and now...

As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India this month subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing and trying to force...

After accusing a pastor in the Dhenkanal district of Odisha, India, of forcefully converting Hindus to Christianity, a group of Hindu nationalists forced him to...

By Lynn Arias -- Iran has an open secret. Persecuting Christians is a booming business in the Muslim-majority nation, and the country is earning large...

Residents of a village in Kaduna state have confirmed to news outlet Truth Nigeria that 177 Christians were kidnapped from three churches on Sunday...

By Josh Hoang-Wilkes in Domino Theory   On the night of December 14, over 1,000 police officers surrounded Yayang Church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. At 3 a.m. they burst into the church...

By Lynn Arias -- Chinese authorities detained leaders and members of the Early Rain Covenant Church in China on Jan. 6 amid the nation’s continued persecution of Christians....

By Lynn Arias -- Nayereh Arjaneh, a Christian convert living in Iran, began serving a five-year prison term on Dec. 23 because of her faith. Christian converts are...