However, this recent escalation appears to be the most extensive crackdown on unregistered churches in four decades, threatening a community that has proven resilient even under the harshest of ...

Cruz, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants Nigeria to be designated a country of particular ...

A conference at Dallas Baptist University will focus on religious persecution worldwide. The Pew Research Center reports that ...

The US should demand the immediate release of detained Zion Church members and offer them safe haven in the US. But ...

China has launched a sweeping and unprecedented crackdown on Christians, targeting Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Zion Church, ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) heard recommendations for addressing religious freedom ...

After 30 arrested in raid on an underground church, is China cracking down on Christians? - Head pastor’s daughter says she ...

Activists say the unprecedented round-up could be the beginning of a wider crackdown on China's underground churches.

Since July 2009, more than 19,000 Christian churches have been destroyed or looted, while hundreds of clergy, including Catholic priests, have been kidnapped or attacked. “Where are the kids ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Christian leaders in Chad are warning that the country’s public institutions are increasingly being monopolized by Islam, part of what they see as a pattern of growing pressures on ...