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– a ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to practice the Christian faith – on Wednesday, which found that 380 million Christians around the world face severe persecution.
The number of Christians facing violence, displacement, arrest, sexual violence, or other persecution around the world has steadily increased throughout the 2020s. This year’s tally isThe 2025 edition of the World Watch List covers the events of 2024 – which included a rapid increase in radical Islamic terrorism in the African Sahel region, the spread of Chinese influence in several top repressor countries, and the seizure of power in Syria by the al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham .
“Nigeria, for example, has the biggest church auditoriums in the world. But that is in the south,” Open Doors observed. “In the north regions, Christians are in a minority, and radical Islamic groups, like Boko Haram, and Fulani militants can create havoc.”The Sahel region, where several governments have fallen to sudden military coups under pressure from Islamist terrorists, has also seen an increase in Christian persecution.
An outlier in Africa is Eritrea, where communism, rather than Islamism, is responsible for top-down repression of Christianity. In 2024, Open Doors noted, “government security forces have conducted house-to-house raids, sending hundreds of Christians to the notorious, inhumane prisons.”
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