Pakistan Observed a Day for Its Minorities Yesterday. The People It Is For Call It a Day of Demand.
A day for equal citizenship, observed by a state whose constitution still bars a Christian from its two highest offices.
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His Church Received 293 Dollars. The Court in Dak Lak Gave Him Seven and a Half Years.
The state counted the money to the last dong. It came to about 293 dollars, and it bought a pastor seven and a half years.
Everyone Says Arizona Saved the Confessional. Read the Holding. It Did Something Larger.
A unanimous Arizona Supreme Court did not rule that confession is privileged. It ruled that no judge or jury may ask whether a clergy member read his own doctrine correctly. That is a much larger rule.
Two of the Three Came Home. It Took Thirteen Days for Anyone to Find Out.
Two of the three church leaders taken from Heiban were released on July 28 and August 1. The news took thirteen days to leave the Nuba Mountains, and it reached us after we published.
I Shared the Revival Numbers Before I Read Them. Here Is What the Second Chart Says.
Gen Z really is going to church more often. That study counts churchgoers. The other Barna report, the one nobody made a graphic of, says practicing Christians have halved in 25 years.
He Said Mass That Morning Standing In for Someone Else. He Was Found on Church Road.
Father Samuel Oyetoro filled in for a colleague on leave, said Mass, and was found on Church Road with machete wounds. Four days later gunmen took three people from a Sunday Mass in another state.
A Texas Judge Just Declined to Take the Posters Down. He Did Not Say They Were Lawful.
A denied temporary restraining order is not a ruling on the merits. The hearing that matters is August 17, and the standard at stake is one Texas Christians wrote for themselves.
Three Church Leaders Are Gone From One Town in Sudan. Nobody Has Asked for Money.
Heiban lost three church leaders in nine days. In three months of abductions, no one has demanded a ransom for any of them. That absence is the story.
I Knew Which Version of This Story I Wanted Before I Knew Any of the Facts
Two pastors detained in Texas, two accounts of why, and the speed at which I decided which one to believe.
He Went Back to Look at His Family's Land. Fifteen Days Later They Let Him Out.
Nihad Hassan pastors a Kurdish congregation in Beirut. He went home to see what was left of his family's property. Police held him fifteen days and never filed a charge.
New York Did Not Lose in Court. It Agreed to Wait.
The July 30 order protecting four orders of Catholic nuns was entered by consent. That distinction is the whole story.
Seven Men Went to a Child's Birthday Party. Six Villages Lost Their Churches.
A birthday party for a five year old in Dindori ended with seven men serving five years and six village congregations shut.
Our News Has a Blind Spot, and It Is Shaped Like 388 Million People
This week a scholar did something uncomfortable. He counted.
Greg Cochran, a fellow at International Christian Concern, ran searches across the big Christian news outlets to see how often they cover the persecution of Christians, compared with everything else they cover. He is upfront that the counts are indicative, not
The Prison Has a Priest. The 106 Christians Inside Have Not Had a Mass in Months.
The document is polite. That is the first thing to understand about it.
A Cairo lawyer named Said Fayez addressed a public appeal to officials of Egypt’s National Security Agency. It does not protest anyone’s innocence. It does not denounce the state. It asks for one thing, a