Across the world, many Christians follow Christ under conditions that make ordinary faithfulness costly. In some places, believers worship in secret because discovery could bring imprisonment, violence, or death. In...

The countries in this list are not gathered here because they briefly dominated headlines or because their suffering is dramatic enough to seize public attention for a moment. They are...

State pressure does not always announce itself through one dramatic headline. Often it advances through a steady tightening of public life: surveillance, censorship, arbitrary detention, punitive laws, pressured silence, restricted...

To pray faithfully for the nations, we must resist two temptations at once: vague generality on the one hand, and headline-driven reaction on the other. Active war and major armed...

Some burdens in the world are so weighty, so immediate, and so far-reaching that they call for more than passing awareness. They call for informed, earnest, and persevering prayer. In...