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President Donald Trump has designated Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” for the ongoing mass murders of Christians by radical Islamists, directing the House Appropriations Committee “to immediately look into this matter” and stating that the United States “cannot stand by” while the slaughters occur.

Archbishop Ignatius Aphrem, the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, told the Kurdish outlet Rudaw in an interview published Wednesday that the president of Syria, former al-Qaeda offshoot terror leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, personally promised that he would respect the rights of Christians.

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that people who are unaware of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria live in bubbles and have awful media sources but also stated that the mainstream media isn’t giving

Over a hundred Christians were slaughtered by jihadi groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is warning of a “silent genocide” in Mozambique, where Islamic State jihadis are destroying churches, burning down villages, and beheading Christians–and then posting triumphant photos and videos of their atrocities online.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has established a $1.3 million legal defense fund to help Christians against growing persecution in Europe. The Graham family is urging Christians around the world to speak out against assaults on their religious freedom.

The election of Pope Leo XIV in May — the first modern pope known to have ever stepped foot in China — and his initial comments acknowledging the “trials” Chinese Christians face under communism inspire “cautious hope” in his Beijing policy, the president of International Christian Concern (ICC), Jeff King told Breitbart News.

Pope Leo XIV authorized the recognition of Spanish Monsignor Alejandro Labaca Ugarte, Colombian Sister Inés Arango Velásquez, and Indian Bishop Matthew Makil as Venerables, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported on Tuesday.

Pope Leo vowed to help protect Catholic communities in the Mideast and Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.

The Chinese Communist Party barely mentioned the death of Pope Francis, with whom it negotiated for years, and failed to send a representative to his funeral as a “brutal message” to repressed Christians at home, one of the world’s top experts on Christian persecution told Breitbart News this week.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry offered brief condolences over the death of Pope Francis on Tuesday, over a day after the announcement of his passing, crediting him meagerly for “useful” exchanges with Beijing.

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau state, Nigeria, urged local “traditional rulers” to organize vigilante militias to protect Christians after a recent string of attacks, presumed to have been committed by ethnic Fulani jihadists, killed dozens and displaced thousands.

Rosario Murillo, wife of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and “co-president” of Nicaragua, praised the “heroism of Jesus Christ” on Tuesday in an address ignoring the fact that her regime has banned Holy Week processions in the country.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday debuted the latest episode of Súper Bigote (“Super Mustache”), dictator Nicolás Maduro’s superhero alter ego, inviting Venezuelans to celebrate Holy Week by “building socialism” with “God’s blessing.”

The communist regime of Cuba banned Christians in Havana from celebrating the traditional Solemn Stations of the Cross on Sunday, Cuban outlets reported.

The kidnapping epidemic that has plagued South Africa this decade may have hit a new criminal low when an American pastor was nabbed at gunpoint while he was preaching at a Baptist church in Motherwell, outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.

A Christian nurse has been suspended from her role in Britain’s National Health Service after she spoke out about allegedly being disciplined for refusing to refer to a biologically male convicted paedophile patient as a woman.

The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday that the communist regime turned the seized Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa into the location of a social security-affiliated company and stole all of the relics housed therein.

A Satanist leader was arrested on Friday morning after reportedly getting into a physical altercation at the Kansas State Capitol during a so-called “Black Mass” event.

Humanitarian groups helping persecuted Christians shared reports this week of Islamic extremists attacking and threatening the remaining Christian minority in Syria, warning they were “next” after the elimination of Alawite Shia Muslims.

A local government council in England voted to ban Christian prayers from being held before meetings in a bid to promote “inclusivity”.

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein warned Sunday that Islamist militias are beheading Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and slammed the world’s religious leaders for their silence on the issue.

Nicaragua on Thursday announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a recently published report by a group of U.N. experts calling for international action against the worsening repression led by dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.

Open Doors UK, a human rights group focused on persecution against Christians, reported on Tuesday that a militant group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) took 70 Christian villages hostage, marched them into their church, and then murdered them by cutting their heads off.

The Sandinista regime of co-dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua published an unhinged screed this weekend declaring the Vatican a “depraved pedophile” state guilty of “Pharisean mysticism,” an apparent response to the public appearance of a bishop Managua persecuted.

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II told the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC, last week that Christians remain apprehensive about the new jihadi regime in Damascus, but they hope to play a “vital and pivotal role” in rebuilding their homeland.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday described Nicaragua’s communist regime as a threat to the United States for its role in “directly contributing” to the migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border and for permitting a Russian military presence in its territory.

The Christian aid organization Open Doors published its annual World Watch List – a ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to practice the Christian faith – on Wednesday, which found that 380 million Christians around the world face severe persecution.

Christian persecution spiked around the globe in 2024, with more than 380 million Christians suffering high levels of persecution and discrimination, according to a report released Wednesday.

Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, said that he believed “our peace is the will of the Lord” in his public interview — nearly a year after Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega banished him from his country.

Turkey is a “key concern” for observers fearing the erasure of Christian communities of post-Assad dynasty Syria, a leading persecution expert told Breitbart News, describing Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as someone who sees “himself as a leader destined by Allah to elevate Turkey and Islam’s influence.”

The ancient Christian community of Syria is facing an existential threat, particularly in Aleppo, under the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Advocacy groups condemned Indian authorities this week for an alleged brutal crackdown on Christians, including particularly severe episodes of violence against Christian women, by “security forces” in northern Manipur, where anti-Christian mob violence has displaced thousands.

The Chinese Communist Party is “intent on rooting out every pocket of independent religious thought” and persecutes Christians by shutting down house churches, stripping children from Christian families, and monitoring every detail of Christian citizens’ lives, International Christian Concern (ICC) announced on Thursday.