
Kenya’s Garissa University officially re-opened on Monday, nine months after al-Shabaab terrorists stormed the campus, killing 148 people and deliberately targeting Christian students.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 7:30 PM PST0

Christianity is being “silenced” throughout the public sector thanks to a “secularising spirit” which permeates the culture and ensures Christians hide their faith, a former senior civil servant has said. William Nye spent 20 years in Whitehall where he says
by Donna Rachel Edmunds4 Jan 2016, 8:23 AM PST0

While the world again focuses on sectarian strife in the “religion of peace,” with stories about it headlining every news outlet, the cleansing of those who would wear an “N” as believers in Jesus of Nazareth continues regardless, with indifference again, as throughout history.
by Christopher D. Burton3 Jan 2016, 11:54 AM PST0

The year 2015 will go down in memory as a period of unprecedented Christian persecution throughout the world, resulting in thousands of deaths along with continuous targeted acts of violence and terror.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.31 Dec 2015, 3:28 AM PST0

The latest news from that most trustworthy of nuclear partners, Iran, has secret police thugs beating a Christian convert and dragging him off into the snow, while his family unsuccessfully pleaded to at least give him some warm clothing.
by John Hayward30 Dec 2015, 8:11 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Christians in Nazareth, already victims of nearly institutionalized Muslim intimidation, need to contend with yet another extremist threat. Israel’s Shin Bet security agency earlier this month announced the arrest of Israeli Arab youths from Nazareth for declaring
by Aaron Klein30 Dec 2015, 4:05 PM PST0

Despite much hand-wringing by Republican leadership, the GOP is actually complicit in the persecution of Christians in the Middle East because of its vocal support for Israel, argues Doug Bandow in a Forbes essay Saturday.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Dec 2015, 10:12 AM PST0

The Bishop of Leeds has spoken out against the wall of silence surrounding the issue of Christian persecution worldwide, in the face of the ban on Christmas in three majority Muslim countries. But the Bishop himself has ignored the plight
by Donna Rachel Edmunds24 Dec 2015, 3:50 AM PST0

The Christian Institute and the National Secular Society have become unlikely bedfellows in their fight against the government’s proposed Extremism Disruption Orders (EDOs). The “writing could be on the wall” for freedom of speech in the UK if EDOs are
by Donna Rachel Edmunds22 Dec 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

Nearly 150 Iraqi Christian refugees, including 62 children, are no longer facing devastating persecution in their homeland at the hands of the murderous Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), thanks to an American husband and wife who helped them flee to Europe, ABC News reports.
by Edwin Mora21 Dec 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

The Queen is set to deliver her most Christian Christmas message to date, using her annual address to the British people to underscore her deep-held belief in the continuing role of Christianity in British life. Her words come as Christians
by Donna Rachel Edmunds21 Dec 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign is asking the federal government to harass Christian schools that have asked for or been granted waivers that would allow them to live out their Christian faith.
by Austin Ruse20 Dec 2015, 5:47 PM PST0

James McConnell — the Northern Irish Pastor charged with making “grossly offensive” remarks about Islam — has had his request for the “ridiculous” trial to be dropped rejected, and will be sentence next month. The prosecution told the Belfast Magistrates
by Liam Deacon17 Dec 2015, 5:56 AM PST0

Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian citizen with a church in Toronto who was born in South Korea, has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labor by the North Korean regime.
by John Hayward16 Dec 2015, 9:36 PM PST0

In a house in Bradford, north England a scene is being played out that is as old as Christianity itself: the faithful gathering in a home to share fellowship and the gospel. The guests, some of whom have travelled from
by Donna Rachel Edmunds14 Dec 2015, 12:35 AM PST0

The Foreign Desk’s editor-in-chief, Lisa Daftari, launched the MyTreedom campaign on Facebook this week to give Christians celebrating Christmas in regions where they face intense persecution a platform to showcase their proud Christmas decor.
by Mary Chastain11 Dec 2015, 9:23 AM PST0

While nominally working against a common enemy—the Islamic State (ISIS)—the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a U.S.-designated terrorist group, has occupied a number of Christian Assyrian villages in Iraq. The Marxist group has also invaded a home owned by a commander of the anti-ISIS Christian militia Dwekh Nawsha.
by Frances Martel4 Dec 2015, 5:20 PM PST0

In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are “clearly the most persecuted group” in the world. In Wednesday’s
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Dec 2015, 4:38 AM PST0

We need a summit with world leaders, both political and religious, televised for all to watch. The topic is crucial. It’s not global warming. It’s Islam. The summit must establish a universal and coherent reformation of the principles of Islam in the 21st century, while at the same time denouncing the violent strain of radical Islam.
by Robert Davi23 Nov 2015, 11:06 PM PST0

A British Christian man has been attacked on the streets of Bradford, England, by men wielding a pickaxe handle – because he converted from Islam to Christianity over a decade ago. The attack is the latest incident in a long
by Donna Rachel Edmunds20 Nov 2015, 1:51 AM PST0

As Vietnam prepares to enact new legislation that will seriously curb religious freedom, police have begun cracking down on Christians, especially those most vocal about their faith. In a period of just ten days, police twice assaulted Christian student activist Chu Manh Son and Catholic journalist Tran Minh Nhat, each of whom had previously served prison terms for denouncing Vietnam’s human rights violations.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Nov 2015, 10:53 AM PST0

Despite President Obama’s sanctimonious proclamation Monday that America does not have a religious test when it comes to admitting refugees into America, the actual math appears to show the complete opposite is true. According to CNSNews.com, who looked at the
by John Nolte17 Nov 2015, 5:31 AM PST0

The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
by Pamela Geller15 Nov 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

Middle East Christianity will disappear within a decade as its followers face utter annihilation at the hands of Islamic State (IS) terrorists, a Catholic aid group has warned. The alarming rate of decline in the Biblical heartlands means the religion could
by Simon Kent11 Nov 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Pope Francis said that in our times, the shedding of blood for Christ has become a “shared experience” of Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Protestants, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals, which is “deeper and stronger” than the differences that still separate Christians.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.6 Nov 2015, 5:38 AM PST0