According to a report by Aid to the Church in Need, jihadist terrorism is increasing on an unprecedented scale and is one of the main reasons for the persecution and death of Christians around the world.
Its growth in the Sahel region is cause for concern, where local authorities have lost power to fundamentalists in recent years.
On the other hand, radicals are also on the rise in places such as Pakistan, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their main victims are other Muslims and minorities, including many Christians.
And the West is not immune to these attacks either: according to the report: in 2023, France recorded nearly 1,000 attacks on churches and Greece more than 600 acts of vandalism in places of worship.
And the situation is getting worse. The report claims that more than 5.4 billion people live in countries where serious religious freedom violations take place.
Aid to the Church in Need publishes a report annually in which it analyses the situation in 196 countries and concludes that serious violations of religious freedom are committed in 62 of them.
