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Christian Persecution

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, is pictured at the Collegio San Colombano in Rome June 26, 2018. (Robert Duncan/CNS)

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Pakistan cardinal blames ‘duplicity’ of West for rise of Islamic extremism

Inés San Martín|Oct 20, 2021|9 Min Read

Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, speaks at a symposium on religious freedom presented by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome in 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pakistan cardinal says homeland has ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’

Inés San Martín|Oct 19, 2021|8 Min Read

Burmese Christian pastor Cung Biak Hum. (Screenshot from the Forgotten Christian Minorities in Myanmar webinar via CNA)

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Human rights activist: Myanmar’s Christians are suffering amid crackdown

Catholic News Agency|Sep 28, 2021|5 Min Read

The March for the Martyrs in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2021. (Christine Rousselle/CNA)

March for the Martyrs highlights 'global crisis of Christian persecution'

Christine Rousselle|Sep 26, 2021|3 Min Read

March for the Martyrs, Sept. 5, 2020. (For the Martyrs via CNA)

‘March for the Martyrs’ to raise awareness of Christian persecution

Christine Rousselle|Sep 10, 2021|2 Min Read

March 26, 2021: The restored image of the Virgin Mary destroyed by ISIS returned to its original parish in Iraq. (Fr. Thabet Habeb/CNA)

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Nobel Peace Prize nominee urges Biden to protect Iraqi Christians

Christine Rousselle|Sep 1, 2021|4 Min Read

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Chris Sanderson, from Flemington, N.J., shouts as he tries to protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in Marjah, Afghanistan, in this Feb. 13, 2010, file photo. (CNS photo/Goran Tomasevic, Reuters)

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5 things you need to know about Christians in Afghanistan now

Alejandro Bermudez|Aug 29, 2021|5 Min Read

Internally displaced families from northern provinces of Afghanistan, who fled from their homes due the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces, take shelter at a public park in Kabul Aug. 10, 2021. (CNS photo/Reuters)

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Charity run by Catholic nuns asks for prayers for Afghanistan

Catholic News Agency|Aug 17, 2021|5 Min Read

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See, meets with Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, in Munich, Feb. 14, 2020. (Vatican Media via CNA)

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Months after China detains Xinxiang's Bishop Zhang, Catholics seek answers

Kevin Jones|Aug 4, 2021|5 Min Read

Soldiers from Chad drive in the retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, March 18, 2015. Armies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger launched an offensive to end Boko Haram's six-year campaign, which has killed thousands in northern Nigeria and spilled over into Cameroon and Niger. (CNS photo/Emmanuel Braun, Reuters)

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New report says anti-Christian violence in Nigeria highest level for years

Inés San Martín|Jul 29, 2021|3 Min Read

A woman is pictured in a file photo praying at St. Anthony Church in Yangon, Myanmar. Experts speaking during an International Christian Concern panel say persecution is worsening for Christians in post-coup Myanmar. (CNS photo/Jorge Silva, Reuters)

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Persecution worsens for Christians in post-coup Myanmar, experts say

Catholic News Service|Jul 12, 2021|3 Min Read

Hassan Mani, centre, father of freed schoolboy Abdulganiyu Hassan, outside his house in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday Dec. 19, 2020. Nigeria's freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country's northwest. Relieved parents hugged their sons tightly on Saturday in Kankara, where more than 340 boys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary school on the night of Dec. 11. (Sunday Alamba/AP via Crux)

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Poll finds that on anti-Christian persecution, U.S. Catholics now get it

John L. Allen Jr.|Mar 19, 2021|5 Min Read

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