A Global Surge in Anti-Christian Hostility Raises Alarms Across Churches

Sep 06, 2025 17:23

ZENIT Staff

Church of the Cross in Wissen, Germany Photo: Alfa & Omega

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The 7th shrine dedicated to Mary, mother of persecuted Christians, will open in Iraq

The new shrine will stand within the recently built Church of St. Ephrem, its focal point an icon delivered this August by Father Benedict Kiely, founder of the Vermont-based charity Nasarean.org.

Aug 15, 2025 10:06

ZENIT Staff

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Nicaraguan dictatorship attacks the Church once again and expropriates school owned by nuns

After a government decree, the school has been renamed the “Bismarck Martínez Educational Center,” in honor of a Sandinista militant killed during the 2018 anti-government protests

Aug 15, 2025 10:02

Enrique Villegas

Persecuted Christians

Mob of Hindu extremists attack priests, nuns, and catechists in India

This violence, the bishops argue in their August 8 statement, is part of “a disturbing pattern of hostility toward the Christian minority in India.” They call it “a blatant violation of constitutional rights and human dignity” and urge Odisha’s government to swiftly prosecute the perpetrators

Aug 15, 2025 09:55

ZENIT Staff

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Islam kills: 32 people are murdered every day in Nigeria just for being Christians, according to new research

The report, released on August 10, attributes the violence to roughly 22 jihadist factions embedded across the country. Their stated aim, according to Intersociety’s chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi, is nothing less than the eradication of Christianity from Nigeria within the next half-century—a chilling ambition reminiscent of the 19th-century Fulani jihad that forged the Sokoto Caliphate

Aug 14, 2025 18:20

Elizabeth Owens

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Bishop of Santa Fe reinstated to the presbytery a man who left the priesthood and was married to another man

Archbishop’s Controversial Reinstatement of Formerly Partnered Priest Raises Questions in Santa Fe

Aug 14, 2025 18:07

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A Global Surge in Anti-Christian Hostility Raises Alarms Across Churches

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The 7th shrine dedicated to Mary, mother of persecuted Christians, will open in Iraq

Nicaraguan dictatorship attacks the Church once again and expropriates school owned by nuns

Mob of Hindu extremists attack priests, nuns, and catechists in India

Islam kills: 32 people are murdered every day in Nigeria just for being Christians, according to new research

Bishop of Santa Fe reinstated to the presbytery a man who left the priesthood and was married to another man