Nigeria: Gunmen Kill 11 Christians in Benue State

Sep 22, 2026 09:56

families in northeastern Benue State were burying 11 people killed during an Islamic extremist attack on their community. Photo: Persecution.Org

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Israeli court sentences Jewish man who attacked and kicked a Catholic nun in Jerusalem to 6 years in a psychiatric hospital

A Nun Attacked in Jerusalem, a Mental-Health Ruling and a Wider Test for Christian Freedom

Aug 27, 2026 13:21

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Canadian Army Bans Service Members from Invoking God: Here’s the Catholic Church’s Response

Canada’s Military Chaplaincy Faces a New Test Over Prayer, Conscience and Religious Freedom

Aug 22, 2026 10:10

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Catholic church vandalized in Israel’s capital amid ongoing attacks

Israeli police arrested a local man in his twenties on August 16 on suspicion of vandalizing the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Jaffa, after several religious statues were found smashed and crosses broken

Aug 21, 2026 19:34

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

The video surfaced shortly after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to expand protective measures for Mata and four people associated with him, describing the situation as one of extreme gravity and a potential risk of irreparable harm

Aug 14, 2026 13:14

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Israel Declares the Only Entirely Christian City in the Holy Land a “Closed Military Zone”

For Taybeh’s Christian community, protection will be measured not by the announcement but by whether armed settlers are actually prevented from entering private property, damaging farmland and intimidating residents

Aug 13, 2026 10:36

ZENIT Staff

Nigeria: Gunmen Kill 11 Christians in Benue State

A Muslim father tries to burn his daughters alive for becoming Christians

Christian Teen Beaten for Protecting Women in Pakistan

Nigeria: 3,000 people killed and 3,000 kidnapped: the toll of anti-Christian persecution in the first 8 months of 2026

Gang Attacks Church, Kills Dozens in Haiti

These are not isolated incidents: Violence by Israelis against Palestinian Christians (and others) is on the rise

Arrest Made in Arson of Historic Canadian Church

Israeli court sentences Jewish man who attacked and kicked a Catholic nun in Jerusalem to 6 years in a psychiatric hospital

Canadian Army Bans Service Members from Invoking God: Here’s the Catholic Church’s Response

Catholic church vandalized in Israel’s capital amid ongoing attacks

Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

Israel Declares the Only Entirely Christian City in the Holy Land a “Closed Military Zone”