When Americans think of religious persecution, they typically think of communist and Islamist regimes — China and Saudi Arabia, for instance. However, one of the most intolerant societies is India, which is hailed as the world’s most populous democracy and…
Jack Phillips hit the news again last week. This time, conservatives’ favorite baker got slammed by a Colorado state appeals court for refusing, for religious reasons, to bake a transition cake for a man celebrating his alleged transition to a…
Religious persecution is on the rise. In much of the world, believing in something other than politics, or believing in the wrong something, leads to discrimination and ostracism at best and prison and death at worst. A recent report by…
Americans are increasingly coming to the conclusion that Democrats irreversibly damaged the nation through their pandemic restrictions. Nowhere is this more true than in the decline of American churches, which were gutted by onerous rules and outright bans that stretched…
Few freedoms are more feared by authoritarian regimes than religious freedom. After all, belief in God presumes a greater being and a higher standard to which human rulers are accountable. That poses a threat to even democratic rulers. However, political…
Islamic terrorism against Christians abroad is a subject that leaves the Biden administration cold. In late 2021, President Joe Biden took anti-Christian Nigeria off the State Department list of countries hostile to religious freedom — a move that puzzled the…
It’s clear that the world is a dangerous place full of things that crush, cut, explode, poison, or bite. There are plenty of ways to accidentally meet your demise, and the more overprotective governments become, the more aware we become…
The group Open Doors USA released its latest World Watch report last week, which tracks the countries that are the worst offenders of Christian persecution. There is a new top persecutor, which took over from longtime number one North Korea. The…