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Hungary’s State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians decried rampant global Christian persecution in a high-powered conference in Budapest on Tuesday.

Budapest, HUNGARY — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a packed hall in the capital Hungary is proud of its Christian heritage and will do all in its power to defend its Christian identity.

Hungary is holding its 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution 2019 in Budapest this week to keep a bright light shining on the plight of Christians around the world.

Unlike “42” and “Walk the Line” and “Tolkien,” biopics that all but erase the Christianity that in real life defined their primary subjects, that’s not the case here.

The newly elected president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, said this week that Christians are called to welcome the stranger, but nations must secure their borders.

Officials of China’s United Front have removed a statue of Christ the King from the steeple of the church of Linjiazhuang in Shandong, replacing it with a lightning rod.

The tiny Christian minority in Jolo, Philippines – a majority-Muslim area in an overwhelmingly Catholic nation – has seen renewed energy in its churches now that its faith has been “tested by fire,” Monsignor Romeo S. Saniel, vicar administrator of the Vicariate of Jolo, told Breitbart News in an interview on Tuesday.

ROME — The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe has published its annual 2019 report, chronicling the rising level of Christian persecution throughout Europe in the previous year. In its report, the observatory documented “a rise in

One of the nation’s largest gay advocacy organizations is greeting Chick-Fil-A’s divestment from Christian charities like the Salvation Army with tepid praise and further demands, including an “unequivocal” denunciation of the brand’s history and values.

Salvation Army leaders said Monday that they are “saddened” by Chick-fil-A’s decision to stop donating to the charitable organization,  arguing that the 154-year-old group has been the target of misinformation regarding its stance on LGBT individuals.

Chick-fil-A will reportedly stop donating money to charities including the Salvation Army and Fellowship of Christian Athletes following pressure from LGBT groups.

Rap superstar Kanye West brought his “Sunday Service” traveling concert to Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church on Sunday, declaring that he is now working for Christ.

More than twice as many Americans view the Democrat Party as “unfriendly” toward religion than the Republican Party, with fewer than one in five U.S. adults saying the Democrats are “friendly” toward religion, the Pew Research Center reported Friday.

Online entrepreneurs are scalping free tickets to rapper Kanye West’s “Sunday Service” at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church for hundreds of dollars as faithful and fans struggle to find a space in the sold-out 17,000-seat church.

Amazon is touting a new children’s book narrating the birth of Jesus Christ as its “#1 New Release in Children’s Christian Holiday Fiction.”

Rap icon and fashion mogul Kanye West is slated to appear on stage to offer a testimony at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch this Sunday, according to reports.

Fewer than one in five people, 18 per cent, in England and Wales say that the Bible is relevant to them, as the number of those professing a Christian faith continues to fall.

Thieves used a car as a battering ram to break down the doors of the Oloron-Sainte-Marie cathedral in the French Pyrenees and stole multiple religious objects, while in Oberhaslach a statue of Saint Bernadette was a beheaded.

A group known as the Hymn Society has released a collection titled “Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community” for liturgical use in the United States and Canada.

Some fans of rap superstar Kanye West are showing an increased interest in the Bible following his conversion to Christianity and new gospel-rap album Jesus is King, with one organization even handing out free Bibles to those who wish to learn more. 

Democrats’ attempts to impeach Donald Trump is closer to a “communist revolution” than “civil war,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).

Former Los Angeles Lakers Lamar Odom took to social media to tell fans that he has been saved by Christianity, and thanked Jesus for saving his life.

A Christian organization has launched an online petition to block a Brussels opera house from staging a performance of an oratorio called Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which the Catholic saint appears naked.

Comedian and actor Kevin Hart is thanking God for saving his life following a horrific car accident last month that left him with serious injuries, saying in an emotional video that his appreciation for life is now “through the roof.”

ROME — Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths signed a joint declaration in the Vatican Monday condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide as “inherently” evil acts that should be prohibited.

“Persecution against Christians has worsened the most in South and East Asia,” notes a recent report documenting the growing oppression of Christians around the world.

Iconic jazz saxophonist Kenny G joined mega-rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West in Los Angeles for another one of West’s Sunday Services. The pair performed “Use This Gospel” in what was another emotional and star-studded event.

Rap superstar Kanye West revealed he asked artists working on his latest album, “Jesus is King” to refrain from premarital sex as part of his public turn to faith and Christianity.

Persecution against Christians in Southeast Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, has grown in severity over two years, according to a new report from Aid to the Church in Need.

Religious leaders in Chile called people to pray for the end of left-wing riots taking place across the country on Tuesday, after a weekend marred by violence that saw at least 15 people killed and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

Faculty members at Purdue University have continued their push against the installation of a Chick-fil-A location on campus despite the administration’s firm rejection of their demands in September.

Kanye West planned to give up rap music after converting to Christianity earlier this year, according to his pastor, who says West told him that the genre is “the devil’s music.”

U.S. Catholics and Protestant Christians have declined significantly over the last ten years, the Pew Research Center revealed, while Mormonism has held remarkably strong over the same period.

Christian-led American family restaurant chain Chick-fil-A will lose its first British branch after lobbying by the LGBT community.

A prominent Vatican cardinal declared Saturday that the promoters of the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon are “obviously being instrumentalized in order to push an agenda.”

Christianity in the United States is declining at an unprecedented rate, a new study by the Pew Research Council revealed Thursday, and the percentage of Christians in the country has hit an all-time low.