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.
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.
Urgent: China's “Jerusalem” Besieged; Hundreds of Armed Police and Bulldozers Poised to Demolish Defiant Church
In a violent escalation of religious persecution, hundreds of armed Chinese police have encircled Yayang Christian Church in Wenzhou, deploying cranes and bulldozers… pic.twitter.com/UKPjBXZ8fo
— ChinaAid (@chinaaid) January 5, 2026
Carney and Xi are buds.
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.
“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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Canadian Liberal Minister of Citizenship, suggests that quotation of Bible passages should be prosecuted as hate.
Marc Miller thinks his morality is higher than God's and feels Christians should be persecuted for voicing their beliefs.
Canada has no freedom of religion or… https://t.co/Ovn7nicMZc pic.twitter.com/2aps41GYJF
— Matt Alexander (@RealMattA_) October 31, 2025
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”.
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately. The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. pic.twitter.com/C0v9RHGoS1
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) November 1, 2025
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.”
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.”
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.
