Jordan conducted airstrikes against alleged Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday, as “retaliation” for a brutal terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in southern Jordan on Friday.
Two violent attacks by armed individuals — one on October 20 and another on October 24 — left 60 Christians dead and 20 homes burned to the ground in Ethiopia.
The bishop and clergy of the Episcopal Church in Cuba on Monday published an open letter urging the communist Castro regime to stop violently repressing Cubans and to listen to their demands for human rights — stressing that it has been “enough” of the violence.
Nigeria has made improvements in addressing the pervasive jihadist campaigns against Christians nationwide, but skyrocketing kidnapping rates should not be treated as a mere “security” problem when victims say their captors demand they convert, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian aid organization Open Doors US, told Breitbart News this week.
Exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Báez on Sunday called upon Catholic Faithful to not be “passive” against dictatorships that destroy democracies and threaten people’s liberties — stressing that remaining silent in the face of dictatorships “can make you an accomplice.”
The government of Nigeria confirmed on Tuesday that the United States had initiated the planned withdrawal of about 200 troops deployed in the country in February to combat radical Islamic terrorists.
Christians in Nigeria face abductions, torture, rape, and murder on a “daily” basis at the hands of hordes of armed Fulani jihadists, a lawyer working in the country’s Middle Belt told Breitbart News in an exclusive conversation on Monday.
British police seized mobile phones from a now-dead terrorist twice but never got around to reading what was on them.
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A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced a man to ten years in prison this week for using a crane to demolish three churches during an especially large mob violence incident in 2023 in which thousands of Muslim men looted, vandalized, and demolished a Christian community.
Chinese Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, freed this weekend after President Donald Trump appealed to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, found himself in Beijing’s crosshairs after building an unprecedented vehicle for the Christian faith that flourished under coronavirus lockdowns.
Nicaraguan human rights activists demanded the Ortega regime show proof of life of 80-year-old Bishop Emeritus Juan Abelardo Mata.
Two mass abductions of dozens of people, many of them children, from schools in Nigeria resulted in 87 people going missing in 24 hours this weekend and has left the Nigerian government scrambling to respond.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed this week that it was investigating the context of an image appearing to show one of its soldiers mocking a statue of the Virgin Mary by holding a cigarette to her mouth and smoking in her face.
The Catholic Order of Piarist Priests in Cuba is seeking to recover a historic 18th-century building ruined by the communist Castro regime.
Rosario Murillo, the wife of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega, on Tuesday lashed out against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, accusing its priests of being “servants of Satan.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Sunday that a photo circulating online showed an IDF soldier wielding a hammer over the head of a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon, committing to take “appropriate measures” against those involved.
Locals dispute a claim by the Nigerian Army that its troops stormed a church and freed 31 hostages from the clutches of an armed gang.
Nigerian Christians experienced deadly suspected jihadist attacks in at least five states on Easter Sunday.
A community that lost over two dozen members to an invasion of unknown gunmen on Palm Sunday, the beginning of the holiest week of the year for Christians, experienced a resurgence of mob attacks on random locals on Wednesday following the lifting of a curfew, Nigerian government officials confirmed.
Nicaraguan Catholics were once again prohibited from freely celebrating Holy Week this year after the communist regime, led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, banned all Catholic processions in the country for the third year in a row.
Christian communities throughout Syria limited or canceled Holy Week festivities, including Palm Sunday observances, after mobs of Muslim attackers targeted Christian communities this weekend, destroying Christian symbols and looting shops.
Communist regime thugs in Cuba detained and manhandled an Evangelical pastor in the province of Matanzas this weekend for simply reading Bible verses on YouTube – a sign that, as protests and clamors for freedom escalate nationwide, the Castro regime still perceives Christianity as a top threat.
Pope Leo XIV welcomed the highest-ranked Catholic authority in Iran, Archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, for an in-person meeting at the Vatican on Thursday.
Afghan Christian refugees in Central Asia who escaped the Taliban, especially women, are facing tremendous threats of physical harm, deportation, and social vulnerability in their new countries, most of them Muslim-majority states, the Christian humanitarian organization Open Doors US explained to Breitbart News on Sunday.
Raising a statue to honour one of the most significant victories in the history of Christendom would fuel “hatred” and “anti-Islamic” sentiment, a leftist Vienna councillor has argued.
Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) Catholic processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week.
The European Court of Human Rights has formally taken up 20 cases challenging Turkey’s designation of foreign Christians as national security threats, with a legal advocacy group warning that “peaceful worship and participation in church life are not threats to national security.”
According to a U.S. official who spoke to media outlets on Tuesday, the Pentagon will send about 200 troops to Nigeria within the next few weeks to train the Nigerian military in counter-terrorism tactics.
The Chinese Communist Party finds “intolerable” the idea that the highest authority in a church should be God, a jailed pastor’s daughter said.
Strongman Diosdado Cabello branded the Venezuelan Catholic Church “fascists in cassocks” for not condemning the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Nicaragua’s communist regime banned the Catholic dioceses of León and Chinandega from carrying out door-to-door evangelization, newspaper La Prensa reported on Thursday.
The Christians of Nigeria have shown “remarkable resilience and faith” in one of the most violent persecution climates in the world.
Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend.
Thousands of people in northwestern Nigeria have fled their homes after a powerful gang leader threatened to exterminate them.
Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors released the 2026 edition of their World Watch List on Wednesday, highlighting the most dangerous countries on Earth to practice Christianity.
Christian activists in Cuba launched a campaign on Monday titled Salvar a Cuba (“To Save Cuba”), calling for nationwide prayers “so that the family of Cuba can come to Christ’s feet.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told evangelical Christian leaders in Florida that Israel is waging a new front against Islamist persecution of Christians worldwide, praising Christian Zionist support for the Jewish state while framing the effort as a “common Judeo-Christian battle.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a Christmas Eve message from Jerusalem stressing that Israel is “the only country in the Middle East where the Christian community is thriving” and pledged that the Jewish state “will always stand” with Christians worldwide.
Nigerians speaking to the newspaper Daily Trust expressed extreme hesitation in traveling out of the capital city of Abuja to spend Christmas this week with family, citing the “insecurity” crisis caused by a growing wave of systematic attacks by jihadists against Christian communities nationwide.
Nicaragua’s communist regime is banning travelers from bringing Bibles into the country, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported.
