“Of the 4,849 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in 2025, 3,490 died in Nigeria, accounting for approximately 72% of the total

“Human rights advocates reported a twofold increase in acts of vandalism against Christian churches and other religious sites across Europe in July 2026.

“Christians are uniquely vulnerable because, unlike other religious minorities, their existence was never acknowledged by any of the Western-backed governments that existed between the Taliban being ousted in 2001 and their return in 2021

“this fact has allowed the Taliban to deny the existence of Afghan Christians and treat any they find as apostates from Islam, even though many are actually second or third generation Christians

“such acts are often only recorded as property damage in statistics, without taking into account their religious context