Christians are under persecution worldwide and face discrimination in the West that could turn in to more violent opposition, according to the author of a new book on martyrdom. "For 2000 years, ...

Pope Leo XIV presides over a commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of the faith of the 21st century with representatives of other churches and Christian communions in the Basilica of St. Paul ...

Christians remain the most persecuted religious group globally, the Holy See’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva ...

BARTLESVILLE, OK / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / Christian persecution is no longer confined to traditionally high-risk regions of the world, as The Voice of the Martyrs doubled the number of ...

Pope Francis and Synod on Synodality participants, including non-Catholic delegates, prayed together Friday evening at the site of the first Christian martyrdoms in Rome. The ecumenical prayer vigil ...

A new book suggests otherwise, but it is dead wrong. In January 1996, I joined 60 Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders at a conference sponsored by Freedom House. The purpose of the meeting? To ...

The worldwide repression, persecution and murder of Christians has gotten the attention of Congressman August Pfluger, who says he will use his position as chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-Simon Berthelemy's 1773 painting 'Death of a Gladiator.' Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images The release of Ridley ...

VATICAN CITY, July 5 (Reuters) - The Vatican will study the modern-day killing of Christians and try to list "all those who have shed their blood" in the name of Christ since the turn of the century, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013 from the year before, with Syria accounting for more than the whole global total in 2012, ...

After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor Decius ...