Christian Solidarity Worldwide said in a report released this week that repression of religious groups in Nicaragua remained widespread in 2025, with Protestant communities, including Baptists, among those affected.
A mob of extremists interrupted a worship service at a house, attacked men, women and children, and assaulted the pastor until he lost consciousness.
The persecution of Christians in Nigeria continues to claim lives as two more were recently killed. Dozens of other believers were kidnapped.
A 14-year-old Christian boy’s employer is accused of keeping the boy from his family and of forcing him to convert to a certain religion.
A pastor in South Sudan was abducted in February while fishing, and then slain — the second church leader to be killed in two months.
The leader of a Christian church was arrested in Indonesia, purportedly for his comments on a social media video that authorities deemed to be hate speech.
A man has had to seek safety inside a church in a South Sudan refugee camp because of death threats against him since he put faith in Jesus Christ.
A Christian farmworker appears to have been tortured to death by his employers, who then staged the scene to look like suicide.
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