Various religious freedom advocates flagged fresh indicators of persecution against Christians who live out their faith in Western liberal democracies during a breakout session of the 2025 ...

ISIS’s primary targets remain Muslims it views as apostate. But a new generation of Christian martyrs is arising as well. Once upon a time—and not long ago—there was another Europe. The religious ...

Washington is no longer seemingly trying to fix Christian persecution wholesale. It is asking where persecution is happening, who is behind it, and whether those actors threaten American interests.

When it comes to the horror stories of Christian persecution around the world, Jeff King has heard and seen it all. As president of International Christian Concern, he has spent nearly two decades ...

About 4.1 billion people, half of the global population, suffer some degree of religious persecution in 24 countries, according to an aid agency report that identified a disturbing rise in ...

Christianity is, by an order of magnitude, the most persecuted religion in the world. Between 360,000,000 and 380,000,000 Christians face high degrees of hostility. Conservative estimates are that ...

(RNS) — For the United States to credibly pronounce human rights to matter, then it must matter in all our relationships, friend and foe alike. (RNS) — The State Department recently released its ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A contemporary human rights crisis that critics charge has too often escaped world consciousness and media attention took center-stage at a day-long symposium in Washington, D.C. on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Around the world, conflicts, repression, and persecution continue to ...

Free speech and religious liberty are the cornerstones of a healthy and vibrant nation, which is why it should come as no surprise that these very ideals are often the first rights to be curtailed and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On June 17, the International Religious Freedom Summit was held in ...

Seventy-five percent of all people today live in a country where persecution is a part of everyday life. Shocking? Yes. But almost as shocking is the relative lack of response from North American ...