Open Doors' World Watch List 2026 discusses Christian persecution in nations around the globe, including North Korea, Somalia ...

A total of 4,849 Christians were murdered for their faith worldwide between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, 373 more than ...

The Open Doors World Watch List 2026 also finds that the number of Christians experiencing high levels of persecution for ...

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 ...

Nonprofit persecution watchdog group Open Doors US released its annual World Watch List on Wednesday, which ranks the top 50 countries where Christian persecution and discrimination are at a record ...

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 ...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has denied reports suggesting that he claimed there was no persecution ...

For the fourth consecutive year, North Korea was named the country where Christians face the most extreme persecution, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2026, but Syria since the fall of ...

This touches two out of five Christians in Asia. The number of countries experiencing "extreme" levels of persecution is up ...

This time, believers in the Iranian diaspora are praying more explicitly for the fall of the country's rulers.

Bishop Kukah dismisses claims he denied Christian persecution in Nigeria, clarifying his remarks were taken out of context ...

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.