
The Global Threats to Religious Freedom
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As 2022 ends, Christians in some countries are facing increasingly dire acts of state-sponsored persecution.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As 2022 ends, Christians in some countries are facing increasingly dire acts of state-sponsored persecution.
The shrine, which will be the third of its kind in the world, is the brainchild of Father Benedict Kiely.
More than a dozen escaped, and 43 remain captive.
Slovakian shepherd, who died at 98, lived his vocation in exile in the Eternal City.
The funeral Mass of Father Cheitnum is scheduled for July 21 at Kafanchan’s Cathedral of St. Peter.
For 66 days in 2020, Alexandre Goodarzy and three colleagues with SOS Chrétien Orient were held captive.
Since the country’s 1979 revolution, Islamic leaders in Iran have described adherents to minority religions such as Christianity and Judaism as ‘pollution.’
On Feb. 15, 2015, the Islamic State released a video online, showing masked fighters beheading the men as they knelt on a Libyan beach wearing prison-style orange jumpsuits.
In Nigeria as a whole, at least 60,000 Christians have been killed in the past two decades.
Religious freedom is not only under attack in the United States, but also around the world. Has the U.S. government been effective in helping vulnerable religious minorities? What has the Church done to protect the persecuted? Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the Conscience Project, and Joan Desmond, senior editor at the Register, speak with Tom Farr, president of the Religious Freedom Institute. Learn in this episode about the plight of religious minorities in places like China and the Middle East and what actions must be taken by our government, the Church, and each of us to support our brothers and sisters.
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