A pastor and several workers from a large unregistered church in northern China have reportedly been moved from administrative into criminal detention.
On 22 September 1734, Schwenkfelder Christians reached Philadelphia after fleeing religious persecution in Europe and crossing the Atlantic.
A Christian forum representing more than 1.3 million people says 26 persecution incidents occurred in West Bengal over three months, with 11 resulting in FIRs.
Christian leaders in Nigeria’s Osun State say the DSS has warned churches to tighten security following intelligence suggesting terrorists could target places of worship and other crowded public spaces.
More than 2,300 Christian prayer rooms have registered for the Global Week of 24-7 Prayer, a worldwide initiative centred this year on the name and Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Anthropic says a China-based, PRC-aligned intelligence operation used Claude to investigate senior Catholic cardinals and Presbyterian Church leaders in Taiwan, gathering personal information, mapping religious venues and searching for exploitable leverage.
A Christian pastor in West Bengal was reportedly taken by force from a prayer meeting, beaten and compelled to promise that he would stop conducting services in local villages.
Russia has not banned the Bible. But pastors and Christian institutions are being punished for possessing ordinary Bibles printed by a ministry the Russian government has declared undesirable.
Christian pastor Dedi Saputra, a convert from Islam, has been sentenced to two years in prison in Indonesia after TikTok posts authorities deemed blasphemous against Islam.