For Immediate Release | February 12, 2021 WASHINGTON — February 13, 2021 marks four years since the highly orchestrated abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh – which was captured on CCTVs. Despite this, the…
CHVN | Libby Giesbrech | September 27, 2020 Christians in a Sri Lankan village are being told by others in the village they cannot continue to worship. In late June,…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | September 23, 2020 A church planter in India’s Maharashtra state was brutally killed by Hindu extremists after suffering years of abuse for his…
Keep the Faith | August 25, 2020 The coronavirus has turned the screw dramatically on Christians who are already oppressed for their faith, warns charity Open Doors UK & Ireland. For thousands, having lost their jobs and being last in…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | August 22, 2020 In yet another series of attacks on Christians in Nigeria, armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen this week killed 11 people, including a…
UCA News | August 17, 2020 An international Christian charity has claimed that discrimination against Christians increased around the world after the coronavirus pandemic. For authoritarian governments, which already limit…
Crux | August 13, 2020 As the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Africa hard, a leading human rights group is warning that the persecution of Christians is getting worse…
Vision | July 21, 2020 Open Doors is calling for world leaders and people everywhere to take the issue of Christian persecution more seriously. CEO of Open Doors UK Henrietta…
Church Times | Henrietta Blyth | July 15, 2020 IN JULY 1955, a young Evangelical preacher, Anne van der Bijl — aka Brother Andrew, “God’s Smuggler” — took his first…
Express | BRIAN MCGLEENON | June 9, 2020 Egyptian authorities demolished a Christian church building and the mosque that was built next to it in the town of Koum Al-Farag. The church had…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 4, 2020 Suspected Islamic radicals killed at least 27 people, some of whom were burned alive, in a series of attacks that spanned…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | June 1, 2020 As the world goes through food security and financial crises due to the coronavirus pandemic, disadvantaged Christian communities in Asia, especially…
Scottish Catholic Observer | May 1, 2020 Open Doors, an organisation that fights Christian persecution in countries where it is most rife, spoke out after it was revealed that government…
Express | David Williamson | April 29, 2020 Open Doors reports that in one area of Nigeria Christian families say they are receiving food rations which are six times smaller…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | April 21, 2020 Attacks on Christians and their places of worship in India continued to escalate in both number and severity in the…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | April 20, 2020 As the COVID-19 outbreak begins in sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of thousands of Christian believers, who are already persecuted for their faith,…
Fox News | Caleb Parke | April 6, 2020 The living conditions for Christians and other religious minorities around the world are worsening due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a watchdog group that…
NCR | Frank Wolf and Toufic Baaklini | February 26, 2020 Just recently, we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the deaths of the 21 Coptic martyrs of Libya. These brave men…
The Washington Times | Cheryl Chumley | January 18, 2019 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Once again, Open Doors, the nonprofit that tracks and reports religious persecution around the world, finds in its 2020…