Christian Persecution

Influential China church reports arrests as crackdown on Christians intensifies

An influential Protestant church in China says prominent leaders have been arrested in what appears to be a growing crackdown on the underground church movement.

Nine people were detained on Tuesday after police raided their homes and the church office in Chengdu, in central China, the Early Rain Covenant Church said. Five had been released by Wednesday.

More than 1,000 miles away in Wenzhou, authorities began demolishing the Yayang Church building, video obtained by non-profit ChinaAid, which monitors religious persecution, shows.

Carney and Xi are buds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Christian Persecution

Is Hostility Against Christians Going to Increase in 2026?

Rising anti-Christian hostility, desecration, and attacks mark a grim start to the new year.

The new year is off to a grim start already for Catholics around the world as anti-Christian hostility proliferates across the West. New Year’s Day saw a 150-year-old former Catholic church in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, leaving behind nothing but rubble and scorched walls. According to Catholic News Agency, it is unclear whether or not arson was the cause of the fire.

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Anti-Christian Hatred in Europe: Report Warns of Growing Phenomenon

“Christianophobia”—understood as hostility, discrimination, or violence directed against Christian people and symbols because they are Christian—is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly visible and serious across Europe. A report published by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) on December 1st highlights an often underestimated reality: the rise in anti-Christian hate crimes—physical, legal and social—profoundly affecting the religious freedom and daily lives of Christians on the continent.

The ECLJ and the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) have compiled data showing that no fewer than 2,211 anti-Christian crimes were committed in 2024, including 274 physical assaults, across a panel of 35 European countries studied.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

Fire that destroyed Toronto’s historic St. Anne’s church now suspected to be arson

St. Anne’s Anglican Church

The fire that destroyed a historic Toronto church last year and more than a dozen murals by the Group of Seven is now being treated as suspected arson, Toronto police said Monday.

The 117-year-old St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Little Portugal burned in June 2024, leaving only the church’s brick walls and the charred skeleton of its domed roof behind. Days after the fire, Toronto police said the fire was not being investigated as arson, but in a meeting after St. Anne’s worship service on Sunday, Toronto detective Patrick Stewart informed the congregation of the change.

ARSON? That’s a grave charge.

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Nigeria sees one of worst mass abductions as 315 taken from Catholic school

St. Mary’s School Nigeria – students abducted

More than 300 children and staff are now thought to have been kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the worst mass abductions the country has seen.

The Christian Association of Nigeria said 303 students and 12 teachers were taken from on St Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger state – substantially more than previously estimated.

It said the figures have been revised upwards “after a verification exercise”.

There is no Christian persecution in Nigeria!

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‘Europe is persecuting Christians’

Free speech is under serious attack all across Europe. To criticise the sacred cows of the progressive worldview – from transgenderism to immigration and even Islam – is to invite a knock on the door from the thoughtpolice. The recent, harrowing trial of a Finnish parliamentarian reveals how it is often Christians who find themselves in the firing line. Päivi Räsänen has spent the past six years fighting a ‘hate speech’ prosecution, simply for quoting passages from the Bible and defending traditional marriage.

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Europe Faces Surge in Anti-Christian Attacks as Violence Spreads

St Paul’s in Corbeil Essonnes

Europe is facing a growing wave of anti-Christian violence, with Germany recording the highest number of arson attacks in 2024. According to the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), a total of 2,211 anti-Christian offenses were documented across the continent, including 274 personal attacks involving physical violence and threats.

Analysts warn that these figures reflect a climate of growing intolerance that affects local communities in concrete ways.

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OLDCORN: Is Ottawa trying to censor the Bible? Liberals’ assault on Christianity continues

If you told Canadians ten years ago their government would be debating the censorship of the Bible, most would have laughed.

Now, thanks to Liberal MP Marc Miller, the joke’s over.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Christian Persecution

Trump threatens to send US military into Nigeria with ‘guns-a-blazing’

Donald Trump has threatened to send the US military into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if the African country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.

Mr Trump said on on Saturday that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Nigeria, USA

Christian Leaders Ignore Muslim Genocide Of Nigerian Christians

St. Francis Catholic Church Nigeria

For years, Christians have been systemically persecuted in Nigeria, with Muslim terrorist groups and militias periodically raiding, raping, murdering, and enslaving Christian civilians in the northern part of the country.

According to a recent article in Catholic Vote, “[F]rom 2019 to 2023, a total of 55,910 people were killed,” and “21,621 people were abducted.” During this four-year timespan, Nigeria “saw an average of eight attacks per day involving killings and/or abductions.” This has continued to this day, with “more than 7,000 Christians killed in Nigeria during the first 220 days of 2025.”

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American Christians: Heed the Example of Decimated Europe

Investigation underway after vandalism reported at church before Turning Point USA event

Those of us sitting in the pews as our bishops deliver thinly-veiled social justice diatribes must work to empower pro-Christian leaders.

Mass immigration and rising godless progressivism have resulted in a surge of hostility and violence against Christians in Europe, but the same could happen in America if American Christians aren’t careful. José Luis Bazán, a consultant to Europe’s Catholic bishops, recently issued a report on the phenomenon, documenting roughly 1,600 attacks against Catholic Churches in France and Greece, as well as similar attacks in Spain and Italy. “These attacks reflect a climate of ideological hostility toward religion,” Bazán told Catholic News Agency. “Attacks or acts of vandalism against places of worship are pandemic,” he emphasized. “We have fragmentary elements here and there, but if you put them all together, you realize the upward trend.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe are being downplayed or overlooked – report

Anti-Christian hate crimes across Europe are being downplayed or overlooked, according to a new report.

The 125-page document has been published by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Similar reports have already been published dealing with anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes.

The report on anti-Christian hate crimes was officially launched earlier this month at the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. It notes that Christians in Europe have been subject to a variety of incidents, ranging from graffiti and vandalism, to violent attacks and murder.

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China condemned over arrest of 30 Christians

Mass – “House church” China

Foreign governments and human rights groups have condemned the arrest of leaders of one of China’s largest underground Christian churches at a time of growing tension between Washington and Beijing.

The US and Germany have called for the release of 30 pastors of the Zion Church, including its founder, Jin Mingri, known as Ezra Jin. He was arrested on Saturday, seven years after the authorities imposed travel restrictions that have prevented him from visiting his family, who live in exile in the US.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Christian Persecution

Legal advocacy group campaigns to preserve charitable status for religion

A legal charity is preparing a strategy to preserve the tax-exempt status of religious congregations, warning the potential for its loss still looms.

On January 6, Parliament’s Finance Committee published a long list of recommendations, including 430: “Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of ‘advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose.”

(Incognito)

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