Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, leader of one of China’s largest underground churches, has been released from detention and reunited with his family in the United States.
Police in eastern India have opened a criminal investigation into the disappearance of an official report on the killing of about 100 Christians and the destruction of hundreds of church buildings in 2008.
Africa’s population has grown more than sixfold since 1950 and is projected to keep expanding through the end of the century — even as growth slows across most of the world — according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week.
Christian organizations are calling believers worldwide to pray, share and mobilize for the roughly 3.2 billion people who have no access to the gospel.
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) this month criticized the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for underreporting attacks against Christians in Europe.
The Rev. Vladimir Rytikov faces expulsion from his birthplace in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine after authorities accused him of “illegal missionary activity” and cancelled his residence permit, a rights watchdog reports.
Syria broke into the top 10 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian for the first time in nearly a decade in Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List as more than 388 million Christians worldwide faced high levels of persecution or discrimination last year.
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