News and Reports

Nigeria Excluded from the State Department’s List of the World’s Worst Religious Freedom Violators

Published on: January 11, 2024

DOHI Staff The Biden Administration has once again left Nigeria off of the U.S. State Department’s list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. This is in spite of the fact that statistics show that 90% of all Christians who lost their lives for the sake of the Gospel globally in 2023 were killed […]

Spreading Christ’s Abundant Love at Christmas

Published on: December 20, 2023

A Story of Hope and Love

Published on: December 13, 2023

Imagine you’re a child in a cold refugee camp. You’ve escaped a brutal war in your home country and you just wish life could go back to “normal.” But for now you must wait with your family — or without, if the war left you an orphan. Or imagine you’re a child in a very […]

Pastor Chang Hao Will Remain in Jail Until His Trial

Published on: December 12, 2023

DOHI Staff The Zhenxiong County Court (Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province) has decided that arrested pastor Chang Hao will remain in jail until his trial date. By denying him bail and keeping him away from his family and church community, government officials are making a clear statement – Pastor Hao is a “threat” to their idea […]

Why Give on Giving Tuesday?

Published on: November 28, 2023

Giving Tuesday is a day that encourages people to do good. It is always on the Tuesday following US Thanksgiving. Created in 2012 in New York City to inspire generosity with the concept that “the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.” It is now a global movement. Around […]

Occupied Ukraine: Enforced Disappearances of Religious Leaders

Published on: November 16, 2023

DOHI Staff Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have become deeply concerned about the numerous reports on the enforced disappearances of Ukrainian religious leaders by the Russian occupation forces. While the exact reasons for many of the abductions are not known, what is clear is that these men were all active in […]

Religious Liberty in the U.S.: Where Does Your State Rank?

Published on: November 14, 2023

DOHI Staff The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy at First Liberty Institute just released its second annual report on the status of Religious Liberty in the States (RLS). The center has approached this data project with the outlook that “people of any faith or no faith should be allowed to live in all areas […]

12 Clergy Released from Prison in Nicaragua!

Published on: October 29, 2023

DOHI NEWS Twelve Catholic priests have been released from prison following negotiations between the Vatican and Nicaraguan officials. The priests, arrested in 2022 and 2023 on various charges, were given two choices: indefinite detainment in a Nicaraguan prison, or the revoking of their citizenship and permanent exile. All twelve have gone into exile and will […]

On Repeat in Pakistan: Christians Arrested Once Again on False Accusations of Blasphemy

Published on: September 19, 2023

DOHI NEWS On September 9, an accusation of blasphemy by a Muslim neighbor led police to arrest a Christian couple in the Dogaij Chowki area of Harbanspura, Lahore. Authorities, fearful of a repetition of the violent events in Jaranwala from three weeks ago, took Shaukat Masih, 33, and his 28-year-old wife, Kiran, into custody. The couple […]

Belarus Persecutes New Life Church in Minsk

Published on: September 12, 2023

DOHI News At a closed hearing on August 23, a Minsk court ruled that two internet posts published on New Life Church’s social media accounts from 2020 were “extremist” in their content and contained “direct calls to extremist actions.” Surprisingly, only Judge Tatyana Skopets and her secretary, Aleksandra Levkevich, were present at the hearing. The […]