Report: Persecution of Christians Rising Worldwide
“Christians face oppression in more countries than any other faith group, with significant challenges in regions like the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
Legal Insurrection rightfully covers antisemitism infecting the world. It’s awful.
But we must not forget the rise of Christian persecution around the world, even if it doesn’t happen much in the West.
The International Christian Concern (ICC) shared its annual report on Christian persecution with Fox News Digital.
The Global Persecution Index 2025 showed persecution against Christians has risen more than any other religion.
“The world is seeing an increasing push toward oppressive control over religion, particularly Christianity, as a consequence of several modern and historical factors converging,” ICC President Jeff King told Fox News Digital. “Christians face oppression in more countries than any other faith group, with significant challenges in regions like the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
The Red Zone areas where the government and others routinely torture or kill Christians:
- Afghanistan
- Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Eritrea
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Pakistan
- Somalia
- The Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan, and Chad
The Orange Zone, where authoritarians and others severely oppress Christians:
- China
- India
- Iran
- Saudi Arabia
The Yellow Zon,e where governments and others attack, arrest, and oppress Christians:
- Azerbaijan
- Egypt
- Indonesia
- Myanmar
- Nicaragua
- Russia
- Vietnam
We hear a lot about persecution in Nigeria, especially after Boko Haram kidnapped almost 300 Christian girls in April 2014.
The Islamic terrorist group still has 82 girls in captivity.
Boko Haram consistently attacks Christians on Christmas. 2024 wasn’t any different. Militants killed 24 Christians last month during Christmas.
“In many authoritarian states, Christianity is seen as a proxy for Western influence and values, which regimes often reject as imperialistic or destabilizing,” King also told Fox News. “Christianity and other faiths emphasize allegiance to a higher moral authority, which inherently challenges authoritarian regimes that demand complete loyalty to the state.”
Somalia, under the control of Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab, banned Christmas in 2015. Christians face five years in prison if caught celebrating the holiday. The terrorist group has even attacked Christians in neighboring Kenya.
ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terrorists slaughtered at least 21 Christians during Christmas in the DRC:
On December 21, ADF rebels made an incursion into the village of Robinet, in the Bapere sector of North Kivu province, a local official said.
“They killed six people on the spot, then on December 22 they arrived at the neighboring village we call Kodjo where they killed 12 people,” Macaire Sivikunula, a representative for the Bapere sector’s governor, told AFP.
Then on Christmas Day, ADF fighters “arrived seven kilometers from Manguredjipa in the village called Makele and killed three people,” Sivikunula added.
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Christian persecution doesn’t happen much in the West? That depends on how you define persecution. Where Christians are arrested for preaching or expressing basic Christian views, where employees are sacked or businesses threatened and dragged into courts, where Christianity is deemed hate speech and efforts made to outlaw such views, is that not persecution?
Maybe Americans and other Westerners aren’t being murdered or raped for being Christian, but if the 1st Amendment is disregarded then aren’t parts of America and the wider West taking steps down the path to significant persecution?
Feel free to argue it’s only the canaries in the mine suffering, but if the signs are ignored, and action not taken, then it won’t just be canaries disappearing from their perches!
Until Christians realize that moslems are not our friends, are our enemies that want us dead and gone, and start to defend themselves and the faith Christianity faces a bleak future. If it has one at all. So that means two moslems for every Christian murdered. Two mosques for every one Christian church burned. And stop being sheep to the slaughter meekly accepting the violence. Love thy neighbor as yourself is all good and well but when that neighbor wants you dead simply for the religion you profess something must be done. But I’m afraid it might be too late at this point.
Someone in another thread brought up the phrase, loosely quoted, that the Saxon must again learn to hate.
Do other things as well. Enter a shop and see an obvious Muslim behind the counter, walk out. Find one of those websites that advises Muslims where the Muslim-owned businesses are in town, but use it to find out where NOT to shop. Same with listings for Muslim doctors,
And so on.
Apparently you and Lucifer have not read the New Testament. What you are suggesting is sheer bigotry. Defense against attacks is reasonable. Wholesale persecution is not.
I fail to see any hint of “persecution” in Griz’s comment. He is merely suggesting one should be discreet in choosing where to spend one’s money.
“Persecution” would be openly demonstrating against or assaulting a particular group or individual in that group. Maybe burning down their business or home. Or defacing their place of worship.
Nothing in his comment suggests or encourages that kind of activity.
Apparently you don’t know me at all. And yes, read both the Old & New Testament and what I say stands. Love They neighbor as thyself is all good and well until your neighbor wants to murder you simply for the religion your profess. Then all bets, religious and secular, are off. Christians across the globe can no longer afford to be lambs led to the slaughter. They must stand up and defend the faith. So for every Christian slaughtered, two moslems. For every Christian church burned, two mosques. And yes, deal with moslems at your own peril. Moslems aren’t your friends and never were. They only have one goal and people of different religions don’t play a part in the goal at all.
Too bad most Christians don’t understand that.
As I said. Sheer bigotry.
Augustine’s summary was think the best of the other guy instead of the worst, then called charity, which was then as a result soul-saving.
You are absolutely right: I have never read the New testament. And none of the downticks you got are from me. Bigoted? No, I just don’t want to bow down to people that do not have Western values. The do not live my way of life but instead go around hacking and chopping people to death or blowing up automobiles in front of buildings. If that makes me a bigot that I were that badge proudly.
Yes. That makes you a bigot. You should hope nobody judges you by your associations rather than by your religion.
Gibbie: Then, so be it.
While reading my morning readings I was reminded that I should explain my understanding of bigotry. We are all bigots by nature. The human brain is a very powerful and efficient pattern recognizing engine. Bigotry requires no effort to engage in – it requires great effort to avoid engaging in. When I point out someone else’s bigotry, the three proverbial fingers are pointing back at me.
Here is what I read this morning. It is from https://plymouthbrethren.org/series/6233
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January 3
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)
One of the most deep-seated frailties of fallen humanity is the persistent tendency to judge according to appearance. We judge a person according to his looks. We judge a used car by its body. We judge a book by its cover. No matter how often we are disappointed and disillusioned, we stubbornly refuse to learn that “all is not gold that glitters.”
In his book Hide or Seek, Dr. James Dobson says that physical beauty is the most highly valued personal attribute in our culture. We have made it what he calls “the gold coin of human worth.” Thus a beautiful child is more favored by adults than a plain one. Teachers tend to give better grades to attractive children. Pretty children get less discipline than others. Homely children are more subject to blame for misdemeanors.
Samuel would have chosen the tall, good-looking Eliab to be king (1 Sam. 16:7), but the Lord corrected him, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for Yahweh seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.”
The greatest case of misjudgment in history occurred when the Lord Jesus visited our planet. Apparently He was not prepossessing as far as physical appearance was concerned. He had no form or comeliness, and when men saw Him, no beauty that they should desire Him (Isa. 53:2). They could see no beauty in the only truly beautiful Person who ever lived!
Yet He Himself never fell into this terrible trap of judging according to looks, for before His advent, it was prophesied of Him, “He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears” (Isa. 11:3). To Him it was not the face but the character that counted. Not the cover but the contents. Not the physical but the spiritual.
It amazes me that anyone claiming to be against bigotry would cite the gospel of John, or that anyone citing him would claim to be against bigotry. But what can I possibly know since (according to John) I am of my father the devil.
According to Jesus, we are all “of our father the devil” until we seek forgiveness provided by Jesus’ death for our sins. No follower of Jesus can boast of their salvation because they contributed nothing to it.
Too bad the leader of more than a billion of Christians is a godless communist. He’s too busy venerating a Mooslim terrorist-inspired Nativity scene to care about his flock being slaughtered and persecuted.
Christians in Nazareth have been intimidated to the point that they reduce or eliminate public celebrations of Christmas. Thank members of the religion of peace.
Why are they not fighting back?
The Christians are a minority v the Muslims in Nazareth. And the Muslims are dangerous, as you know. There are calls for more protection from Israeli police, etc., to safeguard the Christians. I am hoping that happens.
Here’s who makes persecution pf Christians a bit easier: the Pope.
He says almost nothing about Muslim persecution of Christians. Buy he spends an awful lot of time criticizing Jews in Israel.
A flying friend of mine long ago said that it was good to see people taking an interest in religion again. He was talking about the IRA terrorist attacks. In the 60s? The news had been religion-free until then, anyway.
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