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October 20, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 10/20/25

Trump doubts his salvation. Christianophobia. Percentage of young adults identifying as "Non-Binary" plummets.

June 2025

June 10, 2025

The Hidden Christians

In the 16th century, Jesuit missionaries brought Christianity to Japan. But then the Shoguns exterminated...

October 2023

October 10, 2023

The Trial of the Century

The second trial of Finnish member of parliament Päivi Räsänen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola,...

October 05, 2023

What Persecution Would Look Like

We American Christians have it easy compared to our fellow believers in other parts of...

April 2023

April 26, 2023

Lutherans Under Communism

My review of "The Gates of Hell" by Matthew Heise, about the persecution of Lutherans...

December 2022

December 13, 2022

The Mark of a Christian

Coptic Christians tattoo a cross on their wrists as a mark by which they can...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a medical doctor and member of parliament, has been fighting hate crime...

April 2022

April 27, 2022

Finnish Prosecutors Appeal the Christians’ “Innocent” Verdict

The Finnish Christians charged with hate crime for teaching what the Bible says about homosexuality...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Finnish Christians Found Not-Guilty in Hate Crime Trial

The Finnish Christians who were put on trial for teaching what the Bible says about...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

Finland Explicitly Puts the Bible on Trial

On Monday the trial began in Finland for Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola and Member of...

July 2021

July 05, 2021

Sacrificing Wealth and Freedom for His Beliefs

Jimmy Lai is a Hong Kong billionaire who has had his business and his freedom...

June 2021

June 01, 2021

The pastor who leads a church body in fellowship with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

June 02, 2020

Lessons from Roman Persecution

Why did ancient Rome, despite its religious tolerance and enlightened legal system, persecute Christians? A...

February 2020

February 11, 2020

Criminalizing Christian Teachings about Sex

Police in Finland are investigating the leader of an entire church denomination for publishing a...

May 2019

May 08, 2019

“One-third of the World’s Population Suffers from Religious Persecution”

A study sponsored by the British government has found that religious persecution around the world...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

“Anti-Christianism”

There is anti-semitism. There is Islamophobia. A leader of Coptic Christianity, responding to the Sri...

April 17, 2019

Baptism as the Point of No Return

Missionary Nik Ripken has written a moving account of Christians undergoing persecution in Muslim lands,...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

China’s Revision of Christianity

We have blogged about how still-communist China is seeking to co-opt and control the Christian...

July 2018

July 06, 2018

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Archbishops often live in palaces. Anglican archbishops, especially those at the very top of the...

April 2018

April 19, 2018

Two Years in Prison for “Acting on His Religion”

A Mennonite pastor has just been released after spending two years in prison--the full term...

February 2018

February 06, 2018

Pope Sells Out Persecuted Catholics to Communists?

In effect, the Pope is unifying the Catholic church in China by granting authority to...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Indonesia convicts Christian governor of blasphemy

A court in Indonesia has found the governor of Jakarta, a Christian, guilty of blasphemy and...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Saying Christ is the only way to God is “abusive and criminal”?

Two British street preachers were arrested for publicly reading the Bible, particularly the parts about...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Nationalism joins Islam as reasons for Christian persecution

Open Door, an organization that monitors Christian persecution, has released its annual report for 2016,...

January 04, 2017

90,000 Christians died for their faith last year

Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, according to a European study. In...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Pope plans to canonize priest killed by terrorists

Pope Francis says that he wants to make Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest killed...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

Chinese state government confiscates churches’ offerings

In more state repression of religion, the government in China's Zhejiang province is confiscating the...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Christian converts assaulted by fellow immigrants

The Muslim immigrants who are converting to Christianity that we have been blogging about (see...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

That priest was NOT crucified by ISIS

The priest who was said to have been crucified by ISIS on Good Friday is...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Easter attack on Pakistani Christians worse than Brussels

Terrorists in Pakistan attacked a park where Christians were celebrating Easter, killing 70 and wounding...