RSVP: Fortifying Religious Freedom in Syria

Save the Persecuted Christians in partnership with Shai Fund and The Nazarene Fund are pleased to invite you to attend our upcoming event, “Fortifying Religious Freedom in Syria: Keys to a Stable & Peaceful Syria.” It is scheduled to take place on Wednesday September 10 from 3:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. in SD-B48 in the Dirksen Senate…

PRESS CONFERENCE: U.S. and Nigerian Human Rights Leaders to Expose Cover-Up of Christian Persecution in Nigeria

Christian Newswire | Sept. 2, 2025 • Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2200, Washington, D.C. 20515 • Wednesday, September 3, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST Speakers: Dr. Gloria Samdi Puldu, President, Leah Foundation / ICON Judd Saul, Executive Director, Equipping the Persecuted Doug Burton, Senior Editor, TruthNigeria.com Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians Robert…

Egypt’s War Against the World’s Oldest Christian Monastery

The state’s suppression of St. Catherine’s is a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s Christians—including my family. By Mariam Wahba | The Free Press | Aug 17, 25 St. Catherine’s Monastery, 275 miles from Cairo in the depths of the Sinai desert, is the world’s oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. It is also one of…

National Suicide Is Better Than Rudeness

Would Europe rather be polite than alive? By Daniel Greenfield | FrontPage Mag | August 15, 2025 “A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem,” a New York Times story recently reported. The story clarified that the small nation was the Netherlands, it never did clarify who was behind the over 700 bombings so…

Prospect of Peace has Armenia Dreaming of Economic Growth, Stability and Prosperity

By Save the Persecuted Christians | ChristianNewsWire | Aug. 7, 2025 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2025 /Christian Newswire/ — On Friday, President Donald J. Trump will host Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the White House to sign a memorandum of understanding as the two countries move to end decades of strife and…

Pray for Armenia: Refugees from Artsakh Find a New Home

By Dede Laugesen | STPC | Jul 31, 2025 I’m in the Sunik region of Armenia touring a border village site being developed for voluntary resettlement of refugee families from the ancient Armenian Christian lands of Nagorno-Karabakh, known to Armenians as Artsakh, following the September 19, 2023 ethnic cleansing of the region. We met with…

Update: Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh

By Charmaine Hedding | Shai Fund | Jul 31, 2025 Update: Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh Caught between two totalitarian regimes and facing systematic erasure, Armenian Christians seek to rebuild their lives with the help of Shai Fund after the abuses inflicted on them because of their faith. Learn more at https://www.theshaifund.org/projects/restore-hope-and-dignity-for-displaced-armenian-christians…

Lara Logan Slams Media Silence on Nigeria’s Christian Genocide

Lara Logan on X (formerly Twitter): “”They’re burning women and children alive – and the media covers it up.” While Western journalists repeat government talking points without even stepping foot in the villages, Nigerian reporters risk their lives to document Christian genocide. @TruthNigeria123 Lara Logan calls… pic.twitter.com/42UnMoXVBI / X” “They’re burning women and children alive…

Christian Armenia vs. Azerbaijan: A Crisis the World Ignores

One struggling country that is often forgotten is Christian Armenia. In recent years, the country has been in conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan. Nadine Maenza of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable discusses the relationship between Azerbaijan & Armenian Christians. EWTN News Nightly on X (formerly Twitter): “One struggling country that is often forgotten is Christian Armenia.…

Reflections Eleven Years From the Yezidi Genocide

By Charmaine Hedding | The Epoch Times | 8/2/2025 Over 2,500 Yezidi women and children remain missing to this day following ethnic cleansing in 2014. It was Aug. 3, 2014, and I remember sitting in front of the television, watching in horror as the so-called Islamic State swept across Iraq and Syria ethnically cleansing Yezidis…

The truth about Armenia and the campaign to erase Christianity

By Dede Laugesen | The Christian Post | Thursday, July 24, 2025 Later this month, I will travel to Armenia as part of a delegation of American Christian leaders. We are going to visit an ancient Christian civilization that is, right now, under assault. It is a shame that so many Christians in the United…

Ten members of church falsely accused of “fraud”, sentenced to harsh prison terms

Assist News The Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, was handed a harsh sentence June 20. Ten church members were each sentenced to multiple years in prison on charges of “fraud.” Among them, core member Brother Li Shuangping was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison, fined 100,000 yuan — the…

Why Christians Must Stand With Armenia

By David Barton | DailyWire.com | Jul 19, 2025 Armenia is the world’s first and oldest Christian nation, and it’s under siege. Later this month, I will travel to Armenia as part of a delegation of American Christian leaders. By historical consensus, Armenia is the world’s first Christian nation, having adopted Christianity in AD 301,…

Trump must not ignore Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis

By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer | The Hill | July 19, 2025 Christians in Nigeria are becoming modern-day martyrs. People of faith must raise our voices to respond to their plight. I read the account of the horrific terror attack on June 13, where over 200 Christians were slaughtered in Yewalta, Nigeria, while I was taking a break at the…

Religious Freedom and Equal Citizenship: Syria’s Crossroads after Mar Elias

By Charmaine Hedding | The Washington Stand | July 18, 2025 The bombing at Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, on June 22 was not an isolated incident. It was the latest and most visible act in a broader campaign of targeted violence and systemic marginalization against Syria’s Christian community and other religious components. The…