On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber walked into the ancient Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church in Damascus during evening prayers, detonating an explosive vest and leaving 22 people dead and 63 wounded.

All these terrible persecutions about 400 years ago ended up leading to a mass migration of people---Separatists (of which the Pilgrims were the most famous), Puritans, Quakers, Presbyterians, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, the global church marked the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In congregations across this country ...

Persecution of Christians worldwide has increased significantly in both quantity and intensity, human rights experts in Berlin, Germany said on Wednesday (Oct. 15). Thomas Schirrmacher, president of ...

While Christians in America enjoy religious freedom, many Christians around the world suffer persecution, and some are even martyred for their faith. Open Doors' World Watch List 2026 discusses the ...

JOHANNESBURG: Millions of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), spending Christmas under the reported threat of persecution, kidnapping, sexual violence and in some cases, death from Islamist ...

Christmas is a joyous season for Christians as we gather and celebrate the birth of our Savior, rejoicing in the hope that God Himself entered the world in the form of a human child. But for millions ...

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand. A new report has revealed that the persecution of Christians continues to expand worldwide, with countries like Syria, North Korea, and Nigeria ...