Violence at the Washington Cathedral: The Foiled Attack That Exposed America’s Deepening Tensions

Oct 09, 2025 11:25

ZENIT Staff

Washington Cathedral Photo: El País

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

The restoration, entrusted to the Spanish restorer Pedro Escudero, was a work of patience and skill. For two months, day after day, Escudero rebuilt the missing parts, strengthened the broken legs and brought back the brightness of the original colors, up to the final varnishing

Sep 26, 2025 19:01

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Nigerian Priest Abducted Amid Rising Wave of Clergy Kidnappings

The abduction adds to a disturbing pattern that has placed religious leaders on the front lines of Nigeria’s worsening security crisis

Sep 19, 2025 18:41

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Nigeria: Report shows that 100 churches are attacked every month and 32 Christians are killed every day in the country

The destruction is not the only marker of persecution. According to Intersociety’s August report, more than 7,000 Christians were killed across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025 alone — an average of thirty-two a day. Since the violence erupted in 2009, the death toll has climbed to 185,000, including some 125,000 Christians and 60,000 Muslims accused of being “liberal” or insufficiently radical

Sep 18, 2025 18:30

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Iraqi Christian Killed in Lyon Sparks Renewed Alarm Over Anti-Christian Violence in France

The political response has been muted, though not absent. Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National, denounced the act on social media as the work of an “Islamist,” tying it to what she called France’s failed migration policy

Sep 17, 2025 08:31

Covadonga Asturias

Persecuted Christians

Vatican commission documents 1,600 martyrs of the faith in 25 years

Of these, 643 were killed in Sub-Saharan Africa, 357 in Asia and Oceania, 304 in the Americas, 277 in the Middle East and the Maghreb, and 43 in Europe.

Sep 15, 2025 17:37

ZENIT Staff

Violence at the Washington Cathedral: The Foiled Attack That Exposed America’s Deepening Tensions

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Pope Leo XIV receives documented report on religious persecution in Nicaragua

86 Senators Demand Action as Anti-Christian Attacks Surge in France

The genocide against Christians in Congo and Nigeria: the evidence that no one talks about

Christian leaders in the Holy Land condemn Israeli local government threat to confiscate Armenian church property

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

Nigerian Priest Abducted Amid Rising Wave of Clergy Kidnappings

Nigeria: Report shows that 100 churches are attacked every month and 32 Christians are killed every day in the country

Iraqi Christian Killed in Lyon Sparks Renewed Alarm Over Anti-Christian Violence in France

Vatican commission documents 1,600 martyrs of the faith in 25 years