Religious Persecution

(OSV News) — Leaders of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate have deplored an information blackout surrounding the arrest of two of their priests in Belarus. “No one from the …

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — The need for quality journalism and media ethics is increasingly high, experts underlined at the academic conference “Media for Man” organized by Pontifical University of …

(OSV News) — The majority of Christians in Burkina Faso are now shying away from Sunday services and instead praying at home after a series of deadly attacks by Islamist …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Joe Biden reiterated his call for further gun safety measures in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs’ …

PHILADELPHIA OSV News) — As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches the two-year mark Feb. 24, OSV News sat down with Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic …

(OSV News) — Priests and lay Catholics from Belarus said they still hope their church’s situation will improve, despite the continued arrests of clergy and new religious restrictions that are …

LIVERPOOL, England (OSV News) — Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has accused the Nicaraguan dictatorship of creating a spiritual vacuum in the country by its purge of Catholic clergy. Jagger, …

By Aftab Alexander Mughal (OSV News) — As 2024 begins, Christians in Pakistan are winding up a year of violence and mayhem, with the hope of a new government to …

(Editors’ Note: Updated with new information Jan. 1 at 2 p.m. EST) MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Since Christmas, Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries have detained more than a dozen priests, …

(OSV News) — A Christian campaigner has urged Catholic church leaders and the Vatican to condemn worsening human rights abuses in Belarus, after another Catholic priest was arrested in front …