The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has imposed a discriminatory new regulation requiring all business owners from the Assyrian-majority city of Ankawa, located in the Erbil Province, to renew their business…
Breitbart | 072618 Muslim Fulani herdsmen massacred some 120 Christians in central Nigeria over the weekend, the majority of whom were returning from the funeral of the father of a…
Forbes | 050418 At the end of April 2018, President Trump met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. It was a very important meeting as President Buhari was the first president…
World Watch Monitor | 062618 A Coptic Christian from Beni Suef governorate in Egypt saw his wheat fields set on fire, just four days after he was accused of planning…
CBN News | 062618 This is World Refugee Week, a time when people around the world are encouraged to remember the plight of the world's 25.4 million refugees. This year,…
CBNNews | 062518 The United States Senate recently passed overwhelmingly the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which bans the Department of Defense from selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey as…
National Catholic Register | 062518 “It’s a dangerous time to be a person of faith,” said Ambassador Callista Gingrich. “We are at a critical moment. We can and must do…
National Catholic Reporter | 062518 Rome — A Pakistani archbishop has warned about the "gradual erosion" of religious freedom in his country, saying the nation's caretaker government has not been…
Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio | 062318 Second divisive idea: Indigenous people The second Idea that Divides the Nation is the legal concept of indigenous people under the Indigenous…
Christian Today | 062318 A group of evangelical Christians are concerned that only a handful of Christians from the Middle East have been admitted to the US so far this…
Punch | 062318 The present generation of Christians in Nigeria may cease to exist in 25 years from now (2043), beginning from 2018, a group of Christians under the aegis…
Archon News | 052118 Recently, the senior leaders of the Archons of Saint Andrew met in New York in their indefatigable effort to assist the senior leader of the Orthodox…
CruxNow | 050518 Militants killed a Roman Catholic priest this week in Bangui, the violence-wracked capital of the Central African Republic where Catholic and other faith leaders had made headway…
The Tablet | 062218 'The regime has been..criticised by international human rights organisations for its appalling human rights record' In an initiative promoted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord…
NRB | 062118 American Pastor Andrew Brunson is scheduled again for trial next month. Wrongfully detained in Turkey and denied due process rights for years, his story is stirring American…
CBN News | 062018 | VIDEO More than a dozen people gathered outside the White House on Wednesday to call on President Donald Trump to bring American Pastor Andrew Brunson…
CBN News | 061518 The brutal rape of a child has resulted in rare justice for Christians in Pakistan. The Muslim rapist of two-year old Saiba has been sentenced to…
National Religious Broadcasters | 061518 Contrary to media reports that he would not, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he did indeed raise human rights, and the issue of persecuted…
Breitbart | 061318 The Catholic Church in New York has inaugurated the first Shrine in the world dedicated to prayer for persecuted Christians, with the blessing of the icon of…
Under President Trump’s orders, USAID is directing aid to persecuted communities in Iraq Wall Street Journal | OPINION | Mark Green, Director USAID | 061318 When Islamic State captured the…
CruxNow | 061218 ERBIL, Iraq - Officially speaking, anyway, there’s no index of the moral heroes of Catholicism in our time. There would be plenty of candidates, clergy and religious…
The Colorado Springs Gazette | Editorial | 061218 Checks and balances uphold the First Amendment's protection to exercise religion in the United States. Few other countries enjoy the same protection.…
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea | 061118 By Abraham Cooper and Greg Scarlatoiu* For almost three decades, US administrations have tiptoed around the egregious human rights violations perpetrated…
Free Beacon | 060918 Incensed over bureaucratic attempts to thwart a direct White House executive order, Vice President Mike Pence is dispatching U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green…
World Watch Monitor | 060818 The four Iranian Christians who saw their ten-year prison sentences upheld by an appeal court earlier this month are expecting to have to report to…
White House | Office of the Vice President | 060818 “President Trump and Vice President Pence made restoring the rights and property of Iraq’s Christian and Yazidi communities, who were…
ACLJ | 060718 Despite recent tensions between our two countries, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu just met in Washington. Following the…
Catholic News Agency | 060618 Rome, Italy, Jun 6, 2018 / 12:52 am (CNA).- A new ad in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine has given the global #MeToo…
JuiceyEcumenism | Faith McDonnell | 060618 Last week the State Department Office of International Religious Freedom released the 2017 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
Barnabus Fund |060518 Local Muslims forced the closure of a Protestant church in Banjarmasin city, on the Indonesian island of South Kalimantan, on 22 May. Muslims claimed that the approval…
FoxNews | 060518 Seven months after Vice President Pence vowed to stop funding “ineffective” United Nations-led recovery efforts in northern Iraq and provide U.S. support directly to persecuted Christians and…
The Wall Street Journal | 060418 Torture and starvation in political prison camps, public executions and forced abortions persist Early in the reign of North Korea’s current supreme leader, merchant…
Middle East Forum | 060118 While Christians make up less than half a percent of Turkey’s population, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Reconciliation Party (Adalet ve…
Women of Grace | 060118 A new report by the U.S. State Department details an increase in religious persecution that is becoming so frightening that many observers are becoming numb…
National Religious Broadcasters | 060118 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a major door for the advance of religious freedom this week. Not only did he announce the release…
ANALYSIS: For Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, the goal now is ‘not just surviving; it’s thriving’ in their ancestral home National Catholic Register | Edward Pentin | 053018 ERBIL, Iraq…
Washington Times | 05/29/18 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put a spotlight on the Trump administration’s push to bolster religious freedom around the world Tuesday, calling it the “most fundamental…
The Guardian Nigeria | 052918 Four people have been killed and seven others injured in the latest Boko Haram attack in the restive town of Konduga in Borno, the police…
U.S. Department of State | 052918 Press Briefing Room Washington, D.C. AMBASSADOR BROWNBACK: I want to thank Secretary Pompeo. I’m grateful to him, to President Trump, Vice President Pence, the…