Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari died in London at the age of 82 on Sunday, following what the office of current President Bola Tinubu described as a “prolonged illness.”
A horrific gun and suicide bomb attack on a church in Damascus killed at least 25 people and wounded 63 more on Sunday, posing a stiff challenge to the ruling junta’s promise that it would make Syria safe for all ethnic and religious groups.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of Nigeria said on Tuesday that 6,527 people have been displaced by jihadi attacks on Christian villagers in the state of Benue, including Friday’s massacre in the town of Yelewata.
Jihadi gunmen murdered at least a hundred Christians in the Nigerian village of Yelewata, central Nigeria, on Friday night, the latest in a long string of bloody attacks on farmers by the violent Fulani herdsmen.
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, of the diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria, said in a Fox News interview published on Tuesday that his home village of Aondona was attacked by “terrorist jihadis” and over 20 of its residents were murdered after he testified at a U.S. congressional hearing on Christian persecution.
A pastor is demanding an apology from Seattle Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell after the Harrell blamed a Christian rally for a LGTBQ+ counter-protest that turned violent.
Pope Leo vowed to help protect Catholic communities in the Mideast and Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.
Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the conclave to elect a new pope and began taking measures to block any electronic interference with their deliberations, as jockeying continued Saturday outside over who among the cardinals was in the running.
Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the world and a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.
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.
Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the jihadist terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), announced the installment of a formal, 23-person cabinet in which his close HTS allies took the top positions but Christians, Kurds, and Alawites obtained some minor representation.
The Canadian Foreign ministry said on Thursday that it plans to ease some financial sanctions on Syria and send a non-resident ambassador to Damascus, despite the horrific massacres of Alawites and Christians perpetrated by the new Syrian government and its allies last weekend.
Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, said on Tuesday that the junta led by former al-Qaeda officer Ahmed al-Sharaa failed to protect over a thousand Syrians from being massacred last week, and the United States should step in to protect Christians from further bloodshed.
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.
Thousands of terrified Alawite Muslims fled across the border from Syria into Lebanon over the weekend as Syria’s new jihadi rulers began hunting them down and murdering them for allegedly collaborating with the regime of deposed dictator Bashar Assad.
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.
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.
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.
Trump announced on Thursday that he will sign an executive order to create a task force that will “eradicate anti-Christian bias” from the federal government.
Protests broke out in Syria’s coastal cities after a video showing an Alawite shrine attacked by unknown militants appeared on social media.
Hundreds of Christians marched through the streets of Damascus on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree in a village in central Syria. Christians have been highly skeptical of promises to protect all religious minorities made by the Islamist rebel leaders who overthrew dictator Bashar Assad.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished Christians around the world a Merry Christmas on Tuesday, saying “My dear Christian friends, as you gather this Christmas, I wish blessings from the Holy Land,” in a video recorded especially for the occasion.
The president of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides told Breitbart News exclusively on Sunday that he is appointing a new “Special Representative” of his government for religious freedoms to focus on protecting Christians and other religious minorities throughout the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with outgoing White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday in Jerusalem and noted the need to protect minorities — Christian, Druze, Kurds, and others — in Syria.
Archbishop Boutros Marayati of Syria’s second city, Aleppo, told his congregation last week the city’s Islamist conquerors provided “assurances” Christians and other religious minorities could “continue living normally.”
Christians in parts of Lebanon celebrated the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad over the weekend, gathering in town squares to launch celebratory fireworks and gleefully tearing down pictures of Assad from border crossings.
Christians in Lebanon are celebrating the release of several prisoners who were abducted by the Syrian regime over several decades of occupation and who are now, finally, free after the sudden collapse of the Assad regime on Sunday.
Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdul Ghany says his forces have begun to penetrate the strategic city of Hama.
Humanitarian groups are concerned that the surprise offensive launched by al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against the Syrian government last week could put Syrian Christians in even greater danger, and they were already struggling to survive after a decade of civil war and the rise of the Islamic State.
Christians in southern Lebanon welcomed the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on Wednesday as part of a ceasefire in which Hezbollah agreed to withdraw from the area, and Israel insisted Lebanon had to use its military to keep it out. The
Western civilization and American culture are “backwards,” Christianity is a “dying” religion, and Christians are “jealous” foes of Islam, according to a popular Islamist influencer who was seen lecturing Muslim teens in Dearborn, Michigan, on their duty to “civilize” the morally corrupt West.
Hundreds of thousands of South Korean Christians demonstrated in Seoul on Sunday to protest a court ruling that would allow same-sex couples to receive insurance from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS).
Prominent anti-terrorism activist and Lebanese-American commentator Brigitte Gabriel thanked Israel on behalf of “millions of Lebanese Christians” worldwide for eliminating Hezbollah’s leadership, calling it a long-overdue victory as she urged Lebanese leaders and influencers to seize the moment and “make history” through peace with the Jewish State.
A reported 10,000 students gathered at the University of Arkansas on Thursday for a Christian revival event that changed lives.
A September report from Open Doors International details the dire situation faced by Christians hunted to the verge of extinction in Nigeria.
Pro-Palestinian protesters tried — and failed — to block a public sidewalk on Monday as pro-Israel Christian and Jewish counter-demonstrators staged a counter-protest around the perimeter of Union Park.
A group of Christian supporters of Israel has sued the Biden administration in federal court over sanctions on Israel that, it says, violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it targets protected speech and assembly.
The Biden presidency is, in some ways, a consequence of the nation’s choices, John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church, said.
