Category: christians

The ‘Most Dangerous Country’ to Be a Christian: North Korea and Its War on Faith

The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea has willfully walled itself into isolation, making it difficult for other free societies to know what is happening inside the secretive state sitting on the east coast of communist China. It is often through defectors that the world gets glimpses inside a country ruled by a totalitarian regime, including…


Nigeria’s Hybrid Threat: Terrorists Allied With Bandits

To talk to Barry Asake today, you would picture a 57-year-old architect working in downtown Washington, D.C. and driving home every day to leafy Bethesda, Maryland—not a man who 90 days ago was hiking 11 hours a day through thorn bushes while guarded by heavily armed bandits. But Asake lives in Abuja, the capital of…


Survey: Most Biden Voters Claim to Be Christian But Don’t Practice

Nearly two-thirds of self-identified voters who backed President Joe Biden in the 2020 election claim to be Christians, but they don’t take it very seriously, according to noted religion researcher George Barna. Barna, who is Director of Research for the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, surveyed 1,000 adults immediately following the November 2020…


Video: China’s Religious Suppression Could Spread if Not Challenged—Interview with William L. Saunders

Many religious groups are targeted for persecution in China, including Christians, Catholics, Falun Gong practitioners, Muslim Uyghurs, and Tibetan Buddhists, and if these persecutions are not challenged, the regime’s programs for religious suppression risk spreading around the world. To learn more about this we’ve invited to speak with us William L. Saunders, religious liberty and…


Over 900 Crosses Removed From Churches, Christians’ Persecution Continues in China

The year 2020 proved to be quite a turbulent time with the world still struggling to live through the havoc of the CCP virus raging across the globe, claiming over 11 million lives in the United States and more than 55 million worldwide. However, despite the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never once…


Churches Focus on Christmas Joy After Hard 2020

Religious leaders are urging the faithful to recognise the joy in their lives this Christmas after a “harrowing” year marked by the coronavirus crisis. “It’s been a year like no other. A year of anxieties. A year of isolation,” the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher said. “In such dark times, celebrating Christmas can seem out…