Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Being a Christian in North Korea means using secretive, spylike tactics to read the Bible, facing threats of the death penalty, and circumventing propaganda with ...

Pope Francis has set up a special commission tasked with identifying those he calls the "new martyrs" of the 21st century — Christians who have been slain in some cases simply for attending Mass or for helping the poor. The Vatican on July 5 released a ...

The whole nature of Christian martyrdom has shifted in the 21st century, according to Robert Royal, author of the new book The Martyrs of the New Millennium. Interviewed on The World Over With Raymond Arroyo on Thursday, Royal said that since his last work ...

Today, July 9, the Church celebrates the feast day of Chinese Martyrs, 120 faithful Catholics assassinated for their faith between 1648 and 1930. 86 of them died in 1900, during the so-called "Boxer Rebellion," a Chinese anti-Western revolt that caused ...

A forthcoming report from the International Christian Concern (ICC), a nonprofit, highlights the 10 worst countries for Christian persecution, as well as specific entities and individuals that are driving this persecution. The report, titled "Persecutors ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always what Copts expect. Persecution waned after Constantine declared Christianity the Roman Empire’s official religion. But during the ...

(RNS) — In the three decades since the religious liberty organization Open Doors has been compiling its World Watch List of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution for their faith, that persecution has never been worse. That’s ...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Voice of the Martyrs is releasing a new short feature film telling an inspiring story of courageous faith in the face of persecution. The Voice of the Martyrs is releasing Rebecca: Nigeria for the ...

Chosen by Jerry Pattengale, coauthor of “The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the First Century to the 21st Century.” Imagine a five-foot-tall woman capable of challenging the entire Communist Romanian dictatorship, and you ...

(RNS) — The Uganda martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964, and their story continues to resonate across Africa. NAMUGONGO, Uganda (RNS) — Beneath the equatorial sun and a sky streaked with clouds, thousands of pilgrims move slowly toward Namugongo.