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Thirteen Believers Will Be Killed for Their Faith Today. That Is the Average.

Thirteen Believers Will Be Killed for Their Faith Today. That Is the Average.

Open Doors counted the dead again this year. The 2026 World Watch List records 4,849 Christians killed for faith-related reasons in a single reporting year. Spread across the calendar, that is roughly 13 believers a day. Not in one war. Not in one country. Every day, on average,

They Came During the Sermon: China Raids Early Rain Again

They Came During the Sermon: China Raids Early Rain Again

Early Rain Covenant Church has not worshiped in peace since 2018. On Sunday, June 14, its members gathered in a rented hotel ballroom in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province, about 100 miles northeast of Chengdu. Families. Children. A morning service like ten thousand others across China. At about 11 a.m.

The DOJ Just Rewrote Its Religious Liberty Rulebook. Here Is What Actually Changed.

The DOJ Just Rewrote Its Religious Liberty Rulebook. Here Is What Actually Changed.

Begin with what the memo did not do, because that is where both the celebration and the panic live. It did not create a single new right. It did not overturn anything. No court is bound by a word of it. And yet the guidance Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

What the Word Persecution Costs

What the Word Persecution Costs

I have never once been afraid to walk into a church. Bored, yes. Quietly furious about the song selection, more than once. But in a lifetime of Sundays, in sanctuaries and school gyms and rented cafeterias, the most dangerous thing I have ever carried through a church door is a

A Right Without a Remedy: What the Supreme Court Actually Took From Damon Landor

A Right Without a Remedy: What the Supreme Court Actually Took From Damon Landor

Strip the case to its facts and it is not complicated. In 2020, Damon Landor was three weeks from the end of a Louisiana sentence. He is a Rastafarian who had kept the Nazarite vow for nearly two decades, the one drawn from Numbers 6:5, to "let the

What the Supreme Court Actually Decided About Your Faith, and What It Did Not

What the Supreme Court Actually Decided About Your Faith, and What It Did Not

Begin with what the rulings did not say, because that is where the panic lives. Depending on which corner of the internet you read, this Supreme Court is either dismantling the wall between church and state brick by brick, or it is the last shield between American believers and open