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In this Harbinger’s Daily article, Decision Magazine reports that even as roughly 380 million believers face persecution every year, Christianity continues to grow and expand in some of the world’s most hostile nations according to International Christian Concern’s 2026 Global Persecution Index.
- The 124-page report tracks conditions in 22 countries, 13 of which the U.S. State Department designates as Countries of Particular Concern for systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.
- Key escalating trends include growing religious nationalism, transnational repression that hunts dissidents beyond borders, tightening state control over religious organizations, rising terrorism and authoritarianism, and foreign regimes using Western technology to intensify persecution.
- Despite the repression, Christianity is expanding in surprising places such as Iran and across Asia, where believers continue to refuse silence.
- In South Asia, militant Hindu groups increasingly target Christians while some local governments have enacted anti-conversion laws that criminalize basic religious expression.
- In Myanmar, Buddhist nationalism is routinely invoked to justify the destruction of entire Christian villages.
- Islamist terrorism continues to claim lives, with jihadists in parts of Africa routinely massacring dozens of Christians at a time and thousands killed or displaced worldwide in attacks aimed at eradicating the Christian presence.
- In Iran the morality police have returned to the streets enforcing harsh religious codes, yet the courage of women and community leaders has fueled ongoing protests that expose the regime’s fragility.
- ICC President Shawn Wright emphasized that Scripture presents persecution as an expected reality for followers of Christ and warned that radical Islam and other hostile ideologies are actively working to suppress the Christian witness.
- Nadine Maenza, co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable, called for urgent prayer, advocacy, and support, citing Matthew 25:40 that service to the persecuted is service to Christ Himself.
Read the full story:
https://harbingersdaily.com/despite-heightened-persecution-christianity-continues-to-grow-even-in-the-most-hostile-nations/
