China’s Christians felt a noticeable rise in persecution in 2012 as the Communist government began the first of a three-phase plan to eradicate unregistered house churches, a new report says. Cases of persecution of Christians rose by about 42 percent...
As the civil war in Syria has reached “unprecedented levels of horror,” according to the U.N., Christians are being forced to flee their homes as avoiding the violent conflict has become less of an option. “It’s a fight to the death...
Europe’s human rights court ruled in favor of a woman claiming to have been fired for failing to remove a cross necklace while she was working in what has widely been seen as a landmark judgment. Nadia Eweida, 60, who worked at a check-in desk for British...
A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced a family of eight in Beni-Suef to 15 years in prison for converting to Christianity and changing their place of residence. The court also sentenced seven employees in the local authority of Beni-Suef’s city of Beba to five...
In some of the most dangerous and restrictive countries in the world, Christians suffer interrogation, arrest and even death, for their faith. Persecution of Christians in Africa vastly increased in 2012, according to the Open Doors 2013 World Watch List of 50...
