Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen says she has been banned from traveling to the UK after British authorities revoked her electronic travel authorization (ETA), despite it having initially been approved.
The former Finnish interior minister and physician was convicted earlier this year by Finland’s Supreme Court on a hate speech charge relating to her public statements on marriage and sexuality, which reflected her Christian beliefs and included biblical teaching.
When the power cut out and his signal dropped, TJ knew something was wrong.
Seconds later, the banging started on his front door. Terrified, he stood as still as possible with his wife and three-year-old daughter, hoping they wouldn’t be noticed.
But the Chinese police officers broke down the door, shoved his wife and child into a separate room and began to question TJ.
A scandal has come to light alleging that pupils from French independent Catholic schools were deliberately excluded during the admissions process for a military secondary school. This case, which serves as a reminder that the victims of discrimination are not always those we might expect or those who make a profession of it, highlights a deeper problem affecting the military establishment: can the army today do without traditional families who, alongside their faith, still instil in their children a love of their country and a sense of sacrifice?
Anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe remained at a consistently high level in June, with forty incidents recorded across ten countries, according to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe).
The Vienna-based organisation said June saw the second-highest monthly total of 2026, surpassed only by March’s 41 recorded incidents. The cases included attacks on churches, clergy, Christian institutions and individuals, as well as threats against converts from Islam.
As riots triggered by migrant attacks convulse the UK, the debate over immigration in Europe is reaching a fever pitch. The same question is asked, time and again: If nobody voted for this, why does it keep on happening? In the past two years, migrant violence has been recorded—and in some cases triggered violent public backlash—in Germany (a toddler and man stabbed to death by an Afghan); Belfast (a man stabbed in the street by a Sudanese refugee); France (a deadly stabbing by an Algerian in Mulhouse); as well as Poland, Sweden, and Spain, among others.
FBI Director Kash Patel fired five FBI employees tied to the 2023 Richmond memo that treated “radical traditionalist Catholics” as a possible pipeline to violent extremism.
The fired group included four intelligence analysts and one supervisory analyst. David Laufman, lawyer for the employees, confirmed the termination and called it unjust.
A Toronto-based activist organization accused of targeting Catholics and pro-life groups has lost its federal heritage funding for the first time since 2020 after MPs raised concerns the taxpayer-funded group was fueling political division.
Access To Information records show the Canadian Anti-Hate Network received nearly $700,000 from the Department of Canadian Heritage over the past five years before its latest funding agreement expired Feb. 28 without renewal.
This was Bernie Farber’s gang. I wonder if he’s given himself credit for helping create “The Silence”.
A criminal investigation in Germany has drawn international attention and reignited debate over freedom of speech and religious criticism. At the center of the case are two Christian YouTubers who spoke out against Islamic antisemitism and are now under scrutiny by prosecutors for it.
The case involves ‘Niko’ and ‘Tino,’ creators of the YouTube channel Eternal Life, where they publish content about Christianity, faith, and social issues. In 2024, they uploaded a video titled “Islam is not peace,” in which they criticized what they described as Islamic antisemitism in Germany.
The Biden administration sought to target and prosecute Christians, going so far as to allegedly withhold evidence for pro-life defendants, a new report from the Justice Department reveals.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that the “Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans.”
“No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” he noted.
A church in Britain is facing criminal charges for preaching Christianity in public. The United Kingdom has made a habit in recent years of criminalizing Christian preaching and prayer on public streets (including silent prayer near abortion clinics), but this might be the first time the authorities have targeted an entire church and not just an individual.
A Spanish woman was assaulted in central Barcelona by an African immigrant in the early hours of the morning after telling a man she was a Christian, according to reports.
The attack involved a 19-year-old man of North African origin who was later arrested by police. The assault took place around 2 a.m. near La Rambla, one of the city’s busiest areas. Emergency services were called and paramedics treated the woman at the scene for her injuries.
In what has become known as the ‘Bible trial’, Christian politician Päivi Räsänen was criminally convicted last week of ‘hate speech’ in Finland’s Supreme Court. Her successful prosecution was based on a 21-year-old church pamphlet, which simply re-stated Christian sexual ethics. The verdict, the culmination of a seven-year witch hunt carried out by Finnish authorities, is perhaps the clearest illustration yet of Europe’s censorship crisis.
Canada’s top pro-life group, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), is warning that the passage of a Liberal bill criminalizing religious expression and belief when quoting parts of the Bible, including about homosexuality and gender, will lead to the “actual persecution” of Christians.
In comments to LifeSiteNews, CLC said the passage of Bill C-9 earlier this week is a warning to Canadians of faith to “prepare for increasing hostility.”
While anti-ICE insurgents stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday, there was another anti-Christian disturbance happening outside of a church in Washington, D.C., where leftist agitators screamed obscenities and threatened young Christian families as they left Sunday services.
Leaders of a prominent underground church have been detained in south-west China, according to a church statement, the latest blow in what appears to be a sweeping crackdown on unregistered Christian groups in the country.
On Tuesday, Li Yingqiang, the leader of the Early Rain Covenant Church, was taken by police from his home in Deyang, a small city in Sichuan province, according to the statement. Li’s wife, Zhang Xinyue, has also been detained, along with two other church members: Dai Zhichao, a pastor; and Ye Fenghua, a lay member. At least a further four members were taken and later released, while some others remain out of contact.
The crackdown followed the arrest of 18 senior members of Zion Church, another prominent underground church, in a nationwide sweep in October. In December, there were also reports of approximately 100 members of another unofficial church in Zhejiang province being detained , according to Human Rights Watch.
