Here are some excerpts from the report:
Four of the five most populous countries in the world share a disturbing reality: Christians are systematically and harshly persecuted within their borders.They also face murder as in several countries in Africa where 62,000 Christians have been murdered by Muslims in Nigeria alone in the last two and a half decades, and any Christians caught practicing their faith in North Korea are subjected to horrific suffering.
China (1.41 billion people), India (1.46 billion people), Indonesia (285 million people), and Pakistan (255 million people) routinely strip Christians of fundamental human rights like worshiping freely and sharing their faith with others. The United States (347 million people) is the other country in the top five.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China is openly atheistic and continuously attempts to curb the religious expression of Christians within its nation. According to a 2023 report from Pew Research, the CCP’s religious restrictions “are part of a long-standing strategy by the Chinese government to align religion with communism and ensure loyalty to the…CCP, which espouses and promotes atheism.”
In May, Chinese authorities released a plan to incorporate lyrics that applaud communism into church worship music.
In India, Christians endure being evicted from their homes simply for following Christ. Evictions are often carried out by Hindu nationalists who want Indians to adhere to Hinduism only.
According to the European Center for Law and Justice, Christians were the targets of more than 160 violent attacks [in India] in 2024, including physical assaults and attacks on church meetings.
Indonesian authorities, functioning in a Muslim-majority nation, routinely condone the suppression of Christian rights. A prayer house was attacked in July, and Christian churches have been closed in recent years due to restrictive Indonesian law.
According to Christianity Today, “a 2006 law requires churches to secure signatures of approval from 60 Christians and 90 people from another faith” to build a Christian church. This allows those opposed to Christianity to stop the construction of churches.
In predominantly Muslim Pakistan, blasphemy laws are egregiously used to target and punish Christians for following Jesus. Christ followers are often discriminated against and not given equal opportunities in employment. Jobs like sewer maintenance and street sweepers are typically reserved for Christians, and believers are jailed for their faith if they are found to have violated the nation’s strict blasphemy laws.
Christians in these nations may face harassment, intimidation, and imprisonment for following Christ. The most basic human right, the liberty to follow one’s own conscience, is often out of reach for believers in these countries.
This is evil and the religion, in the case of Islam, and the ideology, in the case of communism, that spawn this evil are rooted in a profound hatred for anyone who refuses to accept the haters' belief system, but any belief system that's rooted in hatred and which gives rise to so much evil, is itself evil. What else could it be?
