The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended that the Trump administration expand its designations of "countries of particular concern," listing more than a dozen that should be labeled as such.
The House Appropriations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee delivered a joint report concerning the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, finding that it is the "deadliest place in the world to be a Christian."
Watchdog group The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) released a report detailing the attacks on Christians across Europe and the United Kingdom last year.
In recent days, Syria's coastal regions have witnessed a surge in violence, resulting in the deaths of over 1,000 individuals, predominantly from the Alawite minority.
Islamic militants brutally beheaded 70 Christians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking one of the deadliest attacks against believers in recent years. The massacre occurred on February 13, 2025, when members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an ISIS-affiliated terror group, raided the village of Mayba. The attack began with the abduction of 20 villagers, who were ordered to leave their homes quietly. Later, an additional 50 Christians were captured and taken to a Protestant church in the town of Kasanga, where they were executed.
The Thomas Moore Society, a conservative legal group, is calling for President-elect Donald Trump to pardon 21 pro-life activists prosecuted by the Biden administration.
"On Religious Freedom Day ... we commemorate the ... anniversary of the passing of a State law that has shaped and secured our cherished legacy of religious...
"5,000 years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of many abortive attempts to exile God," stated Franklin Roosevelt, February 10, 1940.
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