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As Xi Jinping demands “unyielding Marxist atheism”, history tells a different story: Christianity has deep, ancient roots in China—long predating Communism and resisting state-controlled “sinicisation”.

The 2026 Open Doors watchlist reveals worsening global persecution, with North Korea again leading and Syria surging amid instability, extremism and growing hostility toward Christians.

On Sunday, 18 January, armed men attacked three churches in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, kidnapping 177 worshippers. Sources close to the community share that they’ve been kidnapped for ransom. 

Militants storm a Nigerian church, abducting dozens and shattering families, as survivors plead for help. With government denial and rising terror, faith and international pressure become desperate lifelines.

While the world proclaims “never again,” Christian persecution is ignored. This article exposes the ideological silence surrounding global anti-Christian violence, a veritable genocide — and calls the church to remember, speak, and remain faithful.

Coptic Solidarity (CS) is formally petitioning the Australian government to help free Said Mansour Abdelrazek (Rezk) from an Egyptian prison.

Economic collapse has ignited nationwide protests in Iran, challenging the Islamist regime as Trump signals support, repression intensifies, and popular anger edges toward open revolt.

Maduro’s capture shakes Latin America, exposing socialist repression, narco-terrorism, and systematic violations of religious freedom—while renewing hope that a free, faith-respecting Venezuela may finally emerge.

From Christmas to Calvary, two modern Catholic witnesses—Ukraine's Sviatoslav Shevchuk and Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai—endure suffering with hope, showing how the Via Crucis leads ultimately to the Via Lucis.

Hundreds of Chinese Christians face Christmas behind bars as the CCP launches mass church raids, arrests believers, and intensifies a long-running campaign to crush faith under state control.

Bibles are now contraband in Nicaragua. The country’s ruling Sandinista Socialists appear to have aligned with North Korea’s similar rule, which bans tourists from bringing Bibles into the country.

Forget the jolly cartoon—Santa Claus was a real Christian hero. Historian William Federer reveals St. Nicholas’s courageous faith, radical generosity, and the true, deeply Christian roots of Christmas traditions.

In a surprise move, Europe’s Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) has officially acknowledged the existence of anti-Christian bigotry. Albeit somewhat limpwristedly.

After nearly nine years of anguish and unanswered questions, the Malaysian High Court has delivered a historic verdict in the case of Pastor Raymond Koh — a Christian leader who was abducted in broad daylight in 2017 and has never been seen since.

In the shadow of global silence, the people of Darfur, Sudan—especially Christians—are enduring one of the most severe humanitarian and spiritual crises of our time.

When Muslims kill Muslims in Sudan, it’s genocide. But when Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria — 7,000 this year at the rate of 35 murders a day — it’s apparently “complex”.

Prof. Patrick Parkinson’s "Unshaken Allegiance" is a courageous, insightful call for Christians to live faithfully amid shrinking religious freedoms—combining legal expertise, biblical conviction, and practical wisdom for today’s cultural challenges.

Christians must see Islam for what it is: a spiritual system that enslaves, not a community of people to despise. The sharper we recognise the chains, the more we must remember the Captive. Every Muslim is someone loved by God.

In Yangon, Myanmar, 27-year-old Nandar was doing what she always did — serving her church with quiet faithfulness — when evil walked through the door.

In recent months, a disturbing pattern of governmental persecution of Christian pastors and political opponents has emerged in the once thriving democracy of South Korea.