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Open Doors: Drastic increase in attacks against Christian targets

Annual data suggests, in certain countries religious freedom is not guaranteed.

In Luxembourg, almost nine out of ten marriages end up with a divorce

According to official data, the divorce rate in Luxembourg is as high as 87%

The baptized have grown by 50 percent in the past 20 years in South Korea

Amid rising numbers the mass attendance dropped to almost 20 percent among Catholics.

Christians persecuted in Nigeria amid deafening silence

"Every day," says Father Joseph Bature Fidelis of Maiduguri Diocese, "Our brothers and sisters are slaughtered in the streets."

The top 50 countries where it’s hardest to be a Christian in 2020

These countries bring millions of Christians onto Open Doors’s 2020 World Watch List of Christian.

Coptic woman narrowly escapes attack

Christian women in Egypt are often targeted by extremists because they do not necessarily follow the Islamic dress code.

"Abortion is normal" exhibiton in New York does not show the aborted babies

The only thing missing is a real image of a baby’s body after it’s been mangled and shredded by abortion equipments.

Bishops from Venezuala : "We live under a totalitarian and inhumane regime"

Venezualian representatives of the episcopate wrote a pastoral letter in which they described the ruling system totalitarianism

'The Two Popes' true story: What the Netflix movie changed

The Two Popes imagines a series of meetings between the previous and current Pope, but how much of the true story was changed

Ethiopian Christmas celebrates National Unity

A majority Christian nation, Ethiopia still struggles with persecution