ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - On a warm evening at Arbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan some 150 mostly Christian refugees anxiously waited to flee their homeland aboard a French government plane.

In an unprecedented initiative, 86 French senators have signed a public appeal denouncing the alarming rise of anti-Christian acts in France and urging the government to take concrete measures to ...

Nearly 1,000 of the anti-Christian hate crimes reported in Europe in 2023 took place in France, with 90% of the attacks waged against churches or cemeteries. The historic Church of the Immaculate ...

Still, rates of faith-based harassment remain higher among the Jewish and Muslim communities. After taking self-defense lessons and repeatedly calling on the police for protection, two nuns living in ...

As of 2020, Europe has about 753 million inhabitants, only 2% more than in 2010. Roughly two-thirds of Europeans in 2020 are Christians, and a quarter are religiously unaffiliated. Around 6% of Europe ...

Most countries have Christian majorities – that is, more than half of all people in those places identify as Christian, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. However, the Christian share ...