
Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime
Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.

Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.

When peace among nations becomes the ultimate end of religion, religions are reduced to geopolitical instruments.

Over the past three years, state pressure on Christians in Algeria has intensified to levels unseen in decades, Open Doors said.

“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”

The former jihadist president’s Berlin visit highlights the growing gap between the official narrative on refugees and reality.

Dia Moodley, a Christian pastor detained in the UK after answering a question about Muhammad in public, says “two-tier policing is a reality in modern Britain.”

A new bilateral agreement will see Washington and Budapest coordinate efforts to assist persecuted Christians, particularly in Africa and the Middle East.

The EU Agency for Asylum also revised its guidance for Christians in Syria, noting that they would be considered at risk of persecution only in ‘exceptional’ cases.

Trade preferences, migration cooperation, and security assistance should be conditioned on measurable progress in the human rights area, Coptic Solidarity’s Lindsay Rodriguez says.
The latest World Watch List points to worsening conditions in Africa and the Middle East, with Nigeria emerging as the deadliest country for believers.