FIFA World Cup: 14 of the competing nations are marked by religious persecution or discrimination

Jun 15, 2026 15:33

millions of people living in 14 of the participating countries continue to face restrictions on their freedom of religion

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

An Analysis of the Current Situation: The Catholic Church in China

After the 2018 agreement, pressure on Chinese Catholics is escalating amid apparent indifference from the Vatican, a Human Rights Watch Report says.

Apr 29, 2026 17:37

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

Christian Doctrine Threatens ‘Psychological Harm’ to Child, According to Maine Judge’s Ruling

As Maine District Court Judge Jennifer Nofsinger notes, Bradeen was horrified to discover that Ava heard sermons “about warfare, fallen angels, and eternal suffering.” The church—imagine this—“teaches that people can only be saved by meeting God on God’s terms.”

Apr 23, 2026 21:15

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

This is how New York’s progressive administration is harassing nuns who care for the terminally ill

The New York State Department of Health has issued warnings to the sisters for failing to adopt policies that would grant residents access to bedrooms or restrooms aligned with their professed “gender identity” rather than biological sex, and for declining to commit to using residents’ preferred pronouns

Apr 22, 2026 20:48

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Priests•Religious Freedom

Colombian President Harasses Catholic Priest Live on Air for Speaking Out Against Communism

At the center of the storm is President Gustavo Petro, who, during a recent cabinet meeting, publicly rebuked a priest from the Parish of the Holy Family in Bogotá

Apr 21, 2026 17:57

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Between Cross and Power: Persecution, Propaganda, and the Cost of Faith in Russian-Controlled Territories

Two episodes, distinct in geography but closely linked in context, illustrate a pattern that is drawing increasing concern among observers of religious freedom: the death in custody of a Christian blogger in Russia, and the seizure of a Catholic church in occupied Ukraine during one of the most sacred moments of the Christian calendar

Apr 21, 2026 08:48

Joachin Meisner Hertz

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Argentina Prepares to Welcome Leo XIV: Papal Vehicles, a Mass of 2,000 Ministers and a Nation Invited to Rise Together

Toyota Argentina formally handed over the Buenos Aires vehicle to Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach on October 28, at the Kansai dealership, which represented the Holy See in the arrangement. The second vehicle is already in Córdoba, where it is being held under the protection of the National Gendarmerie until the Pope’s activities there

Holiness, beautifully explained by Leo XIV on the Solemnity of All Saints

Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, November 1, 2026

FIFA World Cup: 14 of the competing nations are marked by religious persecution or discrimination

Attempt to undermine the sacrament of confession fails in the French Parliament

Egypt Grants Legal Status to 191 More Church Buildings

Lebanon, Gaza and the Holy Land: Christians Caught Between War, Humanitarian Collapse and a Struggle for Religious Freedom

From 3,000 Faithful to 110,000: The Diocese of Solwezi in Zambia Celebrates 50 Years

The Grammar of Hate: An Interview with Bishop Rafic Nahra, Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem, on the Situation in the Holy Land

Christian pastor acquitted after being arrested for making comments about Islam and transgender ideology on the street

An Analysis of the Current Situation: The Catholic Church in China

Christian Doctrine Threatens ‘Psychological Harm’ to Child, According to Maine Judge’s Ruling

This is how New York’s progressive administration is harassing nuns who care for the terminally ill

Colombian President Harasses Catholic Priest Live on Air for Speaking Out Against Communism

Between Cross and Power: Persecution, Propaganda, and the Cost of Faith in Russian-Controlled Territories