Santa Ana, Jan. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Open Doors releases its annual World Watch List, ranking the top 50 countries where Christian persecution and discrimination is at an all-time high.

Christian charity Open Doors has warned that the brutal beheading of 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could be just one of many such slaughters, unless the international ...

JOHANNESBURG: A staggering and growing wave of persecution against Christians across sub-Saharan Africa has been laid bare in the latest Open Doors’ World Watch List for 2025. The report says three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents hanging onto a truck as they flee civil unrest in central Nigeria - AFP/Getty Nigeria’s government is in denial about ...

Recently, the global church marked the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In congregations across this country and beyond, Christians lamented the violence experienced by those we ...

In his remarks at the United Nations in 2019, President Donald Trump said victims of religious persecution would have a place ...

Christians in the beleaguered nation of Myanmar are facing renewed bouts of persecution at the hands of the country's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fox’s John Roberts wondered if President Donald Trump should be playing a bigger role in tackling persecution against Christians ...

Of the 4,849 Christians estimated to have been killed last year on the basis of their religious identity, over 3,400 were in Nigeria, according to the charity Open Doors. Though the country is ...

More Christians were killed in Nigeria last year than anywhere else in the world combined, a new report has found, placing the country at the center of a growing global persecution crisis. Of the ...