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December 14, 2022
Many have seen the recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as a revival of the dark days of the Armenian Genocide of the early twentieth...
December 13, 2022
We pray and hope that this meeting will lead to decisive action to protect and aid persecuted Christians worldwide. “King hears testimony of...
December 12, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 11, 2022
Many Hindus believe that conversion to Christianity is an attack on their culture and way of life, and an imminent threat to both, despite the fact...
December 10, 2022
After years of strife, by 2014 it was reported that 90% of the Orthodox Christians of Iraq had been displaced. Most of them are still refugees and...
December 9, 2022
The disturbing treatment of Agaba Ezera illustrates yet again how conversion to Christianity is so often the occasion for persecution of Christians —...
December 8, 2022
The junta has not infrequently targeted Christian areas, and even churches, as it ostensibly hunts for anti-regime activity. It is likely indifferent...
December 7, 2022
For information about the Orthodox Church in Uganda, see here. For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of Christian persecution in Uganda,...
December 6, 2022
There are very few Christians in Yemen, and those who are there, which include a very small number of Orthodox Christians, live an extremely...
December 5, 2022
We urge all Greek Orthodox Christians and all people of good will to continue to pray for persecuted Christians worldwide, that God will comfort the...
December 4, 2022
For information about Orthodox Christianity in Nigeria, see here. For previous coverage of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria from...
December 3, 2022
Kenya is 80% Christian, including over 600,000 Orthodox Christians.  The website Orthodox Christian Initiative for Africa offers regular news on the...
December 2, 2022
Christians, mostly Roman Catholics, constitute 59% of Mozambique’s population; Muslims comprise 19%. However, the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun to...
December 1, 2022
There is a small community of about 2,500 Orthodox Christians in Indonesia. Get information about Holy Orthodoxy in Indonesia here. For previous...
November 30, 2022
Christianity has been in India since apostolic times, brought there by St. Thomas the Apostle in A.D. 52, as attested by St. Ephraim, St. John...
November 29, 2022
The Republic of Somaliland is a breakaway region of the nation of Somalia. Most of the nations of the world consider it to be part of Somalia, but...
November 28, 2022
Those who persecute Christians in Sudan believed that Christianity was an alien faith in that country. In reality, during the time of the Emperor...
November 27, 2022
A small number of the Christians in Pakistan are Orthodox. Orthodox Christians in Pakistan are under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Orthodox...
November 26, 2022
For previous ChristianPersecution.com coverage of the persecution of Christians in Iraq, click here. “Around 20 families a month: Patriarch...
November 25, 2022
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recently expressed “his regret for the discrimination generally against the Greeks in the...