A Tested Church in a Tense Land: Beijing’s Recognition of a Detained Bishop Rekindles Debate Over the Vatican–China Deal

Dec 08, 2025 17:54

ZENIT Staff

Vatican Agreement with China Photo: InfoVaticana

Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

This is what famous rapper Nicki Minaj said at the UN in support of persecuted Christians in Nigeria

Introducing her at the event, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz framed Minaj not as a celebrity guest but as a witness—someone, he said, whose large following may help illuminate a crisis often overlooked by those far from the affected regions

Nov 20, 2025 18:22

Tim Daniels

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Muslim groups commit massacre of Christians in Congo: nearly 30 dead

Villagers had been preparing for an ordinary night. Instead, they awoke to gunfire, flames, and the frantic cries of neighbors. By dawn, at least 28 bodies had been recovered from Makuta and Django—two districts whose names now mark the latest chapter of a tragedy that has become routine in Congo’s eastern provinces

Nov 19, 2025 17:07

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

1 Catholic priest and 25 secondary school girls kidnapped in Nigeria

The Archdiocese of Kaduna, shaken but accustomed to issuing such statements, urged the country to unite in prayer for the safe return of all those abducted. But in Nigeria—a nation that has lived with kidnappings for ransom on a massive scale for more than a decade—prayer is only one element of a painfully familiar ritual

Nov 18, 2025 17:48

Elizabeth Owens

Analysis Opinion•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

This is what the study says, which shows a growing wave of anti-Christian persecution in Europe

The Vienna-based observatory has documented 2,211 anti-Christian hate crimes committed in 2024, a figure assembled by triangulating police data, OSCE/ODIHR reports, and its own independent research to avoid duplications

Nov 17, 2025 17:36

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Persecuted Christians

A 500% Increase in Attacks Against Christians in India

Indian Christian leaders explain that violence against Christians has intensified since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

Nov 12, 2025 17:13

ZENIT Staff

Here Is How the Morning of the First Day of the Pope’s Consistory with Cardinals Unfolded. Everything You Need to Know: Topics Discussed, Debates, Contributions, and Initial Proposals

All groups emphasized the need for the Church to present itself as a Mother — a welcoming place (including through the restructuring of parishes) capable of acknowledging its own errors and transforming suffering into an opportunity for growth.

3 Criteria for Discernment in a Consistory Based on the Common Good of the Church: Leo XIV’s Guidelines to the Cardinals

The Pope’s Homily on the Occasion of the Opening Mass of the Extraordinary Consistory with the Cardinals

A Tested Church in a Tense Land: Beijing’s Recognition of a Detained Bishop Rekindles Debate Over the Vatican–China Deal

French government security office confirms that Christians in the country are being targeted by Islamism

Nigeria: President Tinubu declares state of emergency due to insecurity and orders recruitment of additional police officers and soldiers

Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities living in areas of war or conflict: here is the video

Empty Tabernacles and Closed Schools to Protest Kidnappings in Cameroon

The wave of persecution against Christians in Nigeria intensifies: girls kidnapped, parish attacked… this has happened

Nigeria: epicenter of a crisis of extermination against Christians. Another village massacred

This is what famous rapper Nicki Minaj said at the UN in support of persecuted Christians in Nigeria

Muslim groups commit massacre of Christians in Congo: nearly 30 dead

1 Catholic priest and 25 secondary school girls kidnapped in Nigeria

This is what the study says, which shows a growing wave of anti-Christian persecution in Europe

A 500% Increase in Attacks Against Christians in India