The Syrian city of Aleppo was home to the largest Christian community in the Middle East in 2011. But the Christian population there is down more than 75 percent in just six years, the report notes, from 150,000 to about 35,000.

At least 26 people died Sunday after a gunman opened fire at a Baptist church in a small town southeast of San Antonio. Devin Kelley, 26, began shooting from outside Sutherland Springs' First Baptist Church before he entered the building.

Christianity is the most persecuted religion on the planet with a Christian dying for their faith every six minutes, and churches across the United States have been urged to "remember those in bonds"

"The outlook has worsened in all of them with the one exception being Saudi Arabia 'where the situation was already so bad it could scarcely get any worse."

North Korea, Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria are some of the worst offenders.

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. State Department refugee data, during the period from January 21, 2017 ... through June 30, “9,598 Christian refugees arrived in the U.S., compared with 7,250 Muslim refugees.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. But Egypt’s Coptic Christians have become the preferred target of the Islamic State group. In February, an Islamic State affiliate released a video saying that Egyptian Christians were their "favorite prey."

The first blast happened at St. George church [near Cairo], where at least 26 people were killed and 71 others wounded... A second explosion was later reported at St. Mark's Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria.

Seven Christians have been killed in Arish between Jan. 30 and Thursday. Islamic State, which is waging an insurgency there, claimed responsibility for the killings, five of which were shootings. One man was beheaded and another set on fire.

Moreover, the jihadist group has displaced over two million people in Nigeria in its ongoing mission to eradicate Christianity in the region.

(1) marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or (2) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage."

President Trump has said he would sign the bill if it passes.

Now ... Michael P. Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College, will become ADF’s second president.

During the year 2016, some 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith around the world, according to a new study from the Turin-based Center for Studies on New Religions.

Communism is still responsible for some persecution of Christians, but “Islamic ultra-fundamentalism” is now the main source of persecution. During the yearit is estimated that between 500 and 600 million Christians were in some way persecuted.