For the remaining month the Obama administration is in office, America’s foreign policy will change so that the State Departmentwill play a larger role in fighting the persecution of religious minorities around the world.

A bombing at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 35 on Sunday, in one of the deadliest attacks ... in recent memory... an assault claimed by a shadowy group... linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood

According to the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors, which works in over 60 countries, more than 7,000 Christians werekilled for their faith between Nov. 1, 2014, and Oct. 31, 2015.

the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the brutal throat-slit murder of a Catholic priest during morning Mass inFrance’s Normandy region. The two attackers were later shot dead.

While it seems like the Church is disappearing because of persecution by radical Islam, King says God is moving in theMiddle East and the gospel "is on fire."

The Rev. Franklin Graham has strongly condemned Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for a boycott of popular fast-food chain Chick-fil-A...just because its Christian owners believe in the biblical definition of marriage.

"The University has not restricted the ability of other students and student groups to engage in expressive activity."

Pastor Li Jiangong and his wife, Ding Cuimei, blocked a team of government sponsored excavators sent to bulldoze their Beitou Church in Henan province, China. The pastor and his wife were shoved into a pit and buried alive.

Li was able to dig himself out, but his wife was suffocated.

Sixty percent said religious liberty is on the decline in America, up from 54 percent in 2013, the poll found.

Four unidentified translators, who worked secretly for Wycliffe Associates, a Florida non-profit dedicated to bringing the gospel to hundreds of obscure languages,were killed by suspected Islamist militants at an undisclosed location, Wycliffe officials said in a statement.

The attackers shot and destroyed all the equipment, books and translation materials in the office. Survivors of the attack are committed to finishing the projects.

The suicide blast, in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, killed at least 69 people, a local government spokesman told CNN. More than 341 others were injured.

The war on Christians is also “global,” Allen argued, with some “200 million Christians in the world today who are daily at risk of physicalassault, arrest, imprisonment, torture or death.”

Beheadings, imprisonment and eviction from ancestral homelands made 2015 the worst year on record for persecution of Christians, withNorth Korea topping a list of 10 otherwise Muslim nations as the most dangerous places for followers of the Gospel.

It is estimated that 7,000 Christians were killed in the Middle East during the year and nearly 1 million were driven out of their countries by Islamic militants.

In North Korea, where an estimated 300,000 Christians live, nearly 70,000 are imprisoned.

A new report offers some startling statistics on the devastation wrought by Muslims on the Christian population in Nigeria, with 11,500 Christians killed, \a million displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or shut down in the last 15 years.

The resolution “urges the members of the UN Security Council to support a referral by the Security Council to the International Criminal Courtin order to investigate violations committed in Iraq and Syria by the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’ against Christians..."

A list of atrocities against Christians and Yazidis includes assassinations of church leaders, torture, mass murders, kidnapping, sexual enslavement,and destruction of sacred sites.

At the top of the Watch List, for the 14th consecutive year, stands North Korea, where an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in labor camps.

Nine out of the top ten countries where Christians suffer “extreme persecution” were Muslim-majority countries.