China’s recent pledge of unwavering support for Iran could intensify the persecution of Christians in both countries, warns the U.S.-based group International Christian Concern. The concern arises after Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed strong ties with Iran during the annual BRICS summit.
No churches are officially recognized by the Bhutanese government and any attempt to convert people from the state religion is illegal.
In order to truly live out the Great Commandment and Great Commission, it is not enough to evangelize or simply serve our own communities of fellow believers in need.
Authorities in China released on bail a church leader jailed since August 2023 for printing Bibles, while the Christian co-founder of a special children’s school has been arrested on charges of “inciting disturbances” for his human rights activism.
China has subjected hundreds of North Koreans to atrocities since last year by forcibly returning them to a country whose leaders hold that religion, especially Christianity, is the greatest threat to its power, experts said at a recent U.S. hearing.
Oppressive regimes like China and Iran are using artificial intelligence tools like facial recognition technology to “track" and "repress” Christians at a “level that wasn't available to them before,” the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has warned.
In a sweeping overhaul of religious spaces, Chinese authorities have replaced Christian symbols with images of Communist leaders and party slogans across numerous churches in China, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which points to an aggressive policy to integrate the Chinese Communist Party ideology into religious practices.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz drew scrutiny for saying during Tuesday's vice presidential debate on CBS News that he "misspoke" when he claimed that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
California pastor David Lin has been released from a Chinese prison after nearly two decades and has returned to the United States, the State Department said Sunday.
Former first lady Melania Trump warned Americans about government encroachment on their freedoms and discussed the July assassination attempt against her husband in two video messages promoting her memoir days before a Secret Service stopped a second potential assassin targeting former President Donald Trump.
