religious persecution

A 25-year-old Christian is in police custody in Lahore, Pakistan, and is charged with blasphemy for sharing a social media post that was critical of Islam.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the Vatican on Wednesday to join the United States in denouncing violations of religious freedom in China, saying the Catholic Church should be at the forefront in the fight to insist on basic human rights there.

Asif Pervaiz, who has been imprisoned since 2013, has been sentenced to death because his supervisor accused him of sending him texts demeaning the Quran and the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

On Aug. 11, a Chinese preacher in Yunnan province received a notice from the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau (ERAB) that he would be fined nearly $3,000 for holding an online Bible study.

In the latest news on the Uyghur genocide in China, a Uyghur obstetrician now living in Turkey told Radio Free Asia that hospitals are forcing women to get abortions and are killing their newborn children.

A Chinese man who was arrested for street evangelism remained undeterred and encouraged the officers who took him into custody to believe in Jesus.

The Chinese government is ramping up its persecution of any church in China, even if it is a Three Self church, which is approved by the state.

The U.S. State Department has announced it will cap the number of refugees resettled in the U.S. at 18,000 for the coming 2020 fiscal year. This number is down significantly from the 2019 cap of 30,000 refugees.