Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State

Persecution of Christians by (IS)

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Chaldean Catholic Church

Location|  Territory of the Islamic State

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Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Libya
Nigeria
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mozambique
Date| Ongoing
Target| Christians (mostly Assyrians, Arab Christians, Armenians, Copts, Citadel Christians, and other groups)

Attack type

| Genocidal massacre, religious persecution, ethnic cleansing, human trafficking and forced conversions to Sunni Islam.
Victims|

1,000,000–2,280,000

* 1,080,000 (1,2 million to 120,000) depopulated in Iraq (2011–2024)
* 1,200,000 (1,5 million to 300,000) depopulated in Syria

Perpetrators|  Islamic State
Defenders| Christian militias in Iraq and Syria
Iraqi Armed Forces
CJTF–OIR
Syrian Armed Forces[a]
Egyptian Armed Forces
Libyan National Army
Motive|

* Islamic extremism
* Anti-Christian sentiment

* v
* t
* e

War in Iraq
(2013–2017)

Battles and operations

* 1st Anbar
* 1st Fallujah
* 1st Northern Iraq
* 1st Mosul
* Badush prison
* Camp Speicher
* 1st Kirkuk
* 2nd Northern Iraq
* Zumar
* Makhmour
* 1st Sinjar
* Mosul Dam
* Sharfadin
* Musab bin Umair mosque
* Suq al-Ghazi
* Saqlawiyah
* 1st Hīt
* Jurf al-Sakhar
* Salahuddin
* 1st Baiji
* Amirli
* 1st Tikrit
* 2nd Baiji
* 3rd Baiji
* Dhuluiya
* 2nd Tikrit
* 1st Ramadi
* 2nd Sinjar
* 2nd Mosul
* 2nd Kirkuk
* Al-Karmah
* 2nd Anbar
* 2nd Ramadi
* 2nd Fallujah
* 2nd Hīt
* Ar-Rutbah
* 3rd Fallujah
* 3rd Sinjar
* Nineveh Plains offensive
* Shirqat offensive
* 3rd Mosul
* Mosul airstrike
* Western Nineveh
* 3rd Kirkuk
* Hamam al-Alil
* 4th Sinjar
* Turkish Sinjar airstrike
* Tal Afar
* Western Anbar
* Hawija
* Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
* 4th Kirkuk
* Western Iraq

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Major insurgent attacks

* 1st Hillah
* 1st Baghdad
* Khan Bani Saad
* 2nd Baghdad
* Sharaban
* Ramadi
* Mosul
* 3rd Baghdad
* Miqdadiyah
* 2nd Hillah
* Iskandariya
* 4th Baghdad
* Samawa
* 5th Baghdad
* 1st Balad
* Taji
* 6th Baghdad
* 7th Baghdad
* 2nd Balad
* 8th Baghdad
* 9th Baghdad
* 3rd Hillah
* 10th Baghdad
* 11th Baghdad
* Tikrit
* 12th Baghdad
* Nasiriyah

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Foreign interventions

* Iranian-led intervention
* American-led intervention
* Inherent Resolve
* Shader
* Okra
* Chammal
* Impact
* Netherlands
* Hawija

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IS genocide of minorities

* Christian genocide
* Yazidi genocide
* Shia genocide
* Turkmen genocide

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IS war crimes

* Mosul executions
* Chemical weapons

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Timeline

* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017

The persecution of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder[1][2][3] of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Nigeria controlled by the Islamic extremist group Islamic State. Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover but has since intensified further.[4][5][6] Christians have been subjected to massacres, forced conversions, rape, sexual slavery, and the systematic destruction of their historical sites, churches and other places of worship.

According to US diplomat Alberto M. Fernandez, "While the majority of the victims of the conflict which is raging in Syria and Iraq have been Muslims, Christians have borne a heavy burden given their small numbers."[7]

The depopulation of Christians from the Middle East by the Islamic State as well as other organisations and governments has been formally recognised as an ongoing genocide by the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom. Christians remain the most persecuted religious group in the Middle East, and Christians in Iraq are “close to extinction”.[8][9][10] According to estimates by the US State Department, the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from 1.2 million 2011 to 120,000 in 2024, and the number in Syria from 1.5 million to 300,000, falls driven by persecution by terrorist groups and repression by authoritarian regimes.[6]

## Timeline

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The mass flight and expulsion of ethnic Assyrians from Iraq and Syria is a process which was initiated during the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and the Multi-National Force and later it was initiated during the start of the Syrian civil war and the spillover. Leaders of Iraq's Assyrian community estimate that over two-thirds of the Iraqi Assyrian population may have fled the country or been internally displaced during the U.S.-led invasion which lasted from 2003 until 2011. Reports suggest that whole neighborhoods of Assyrians have cleared out in the cities of Baghdad and Basra, and that Sunni insurgent groups and militias have threatened Assyrian Christians.[11] Following the campaign of the Islamic State in northern Iraq in August 2014, one quarter of the remaining Assyrians fled the jihadists, finding refuge in neighboring countries.[12]

### Northern Iraq (2014)

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See also: Fall of Mosul, Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014), and Assyrians in Iraq

After the fall of Mosul, IS demanded that Assyrian Christians living in the city convert to Islam, pay jizyah, or face execution, by July 19, 2014.[13][14][15][16] IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi further noted that Christians who do not agree to follow those terms must "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate" within a specified deadline.[16] This resulted in a complete Assyrian Christian exodus from Mosul, marking the end of 1,800 years of continuous Christian presence.[17] A church mass was not held in Mosul for the first time in nearly 2 millennia.[18]

In October 2014, a release put out by the Assyrian International News Agency stated that 200,000 Assyrians had been driven from their homes by the violence and become displaced.[19]

IS has already set similar rules for Christians living in other cities and towns, including its de facto capital Raqqa.[20][21]

IS had also been seen marking Christian homes with the letter nūn for Nassarah ("Cultural Christian").[22][23] Several religious buildings were seized and subsequently demolished, most notably Mar Behnam Monastery.[24]

By August 7, IS captured the primarily Assyrian towns of Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Bartella, and Karamlish, prompting the residents to flee.[25] More than 100,000 Iraqi Christians were forced to flee their homes and leave all their property behind after IS invaded Qaraqosh and surrounding towns in the Nineveh Plains Province of Iraq.[26]

### Libya (2015)

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See also: 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya and Copts in Libya

On February 12, 2015, the IS released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church".[27] The men, who came from different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, Minya Governorate,[28] were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on December 27, 2014, and in January 2015.[29]

### Syria (2015)

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See also: Assyrians in Syria

On 23 February 2015, in response to a major Kurdish offensive in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, IS abducted 150 Assyrians from villages near Tell Tamer in northeastern Syria, after launching a large offensive in the region.[30]

According to US diplomat Alberto M. Fernandez, of the 232 of the Assyrians kidnapped in the IS attack on the Assyrian Christian farming villages on the banks of the Khabur River in Northeast Syria, 51 were children and 84 were women. "Most of them remain in captivity, with one account claiming that ISIS is demanding $22 million (or roughly $100,000 per person) for their release."[7]

On 8 October 2015, IS released a video showing three of the Assyrian men kidnapped in Khabur being murdered. It was reported that 202 of the 253 kidnapped Assyrians were still in captivity, each one with a demanded ransom of $100,000.[31]

### Egypt (2018)

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See also: Terrorism in Egypt and Sinai insurgency

On 2 November 2018, Islamic State gunmen killed at least seven Coptic Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday and wounded at least 16 in an attack.[32] In April 2021, Islamic State gunmen executed a Christian businessman who was kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai.[33]

## Reactions

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On 2 and 3 August 2014, thousands of Assyrians of the diaspora protested the persecution of their fellow Assyrians within Iraq and Syria, demanding a United Nations-led creation of a safe haven for minorities in the Nineveh Plains.[34][35]

In October 2014, Kurdish-Danish human rights activist Widad Akrawi dedicated her 2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award "to all victims of persecution, particularly the Yazidis, the Christians, and all residents of the Kobanê region."[36]

The same month, David Greene, a radio journalist at NPR, stated that around 1,000 Christians had been killed "in areas where Islamic State fighters are targeting religious minorities", without specifying a source.[37]

## Recognition as genocide

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Chaldean Catholic priest Douglas Al-Bazi, who was tortured by the Islamic State, has urged the US to recognise the killings as genocide.[38]

On February 3, 2016, European Parliament unanimously voted to recognize the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, by the Islamic State as genocide.[39][40][41] Lars Adaktusson, a Swedish member of the European Parliament, said of the vote: "It gives the victims of the atrocities a chance to get their human dignity restored. It's also a historical confirmation that the European Parliament recognized what is going on and that they are suffering from the most despicable crime in the world, namely genocide."[42]

The United States House of Representatives followed suit on March 15, 2016, declaring that these atrocities against minorities were genocide.[43] Already in December 2015, at a town hall event, the 67th United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called the systematic persecution a genocide.[44]

On April 20, 2016, the British Parliament unanimously voted to denounce the actions against minorities as genocide.[45]

## See also

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* Armenian genocide
* Boxer Rebellion
* §Massacre of Chinese Christians and missionaries
* Assyrian genocide
* Christianity and Islam
* Christianity in the Middle East
* Collaboration with the Islamic State
* Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State
* Iraqi Turkmen genocide
* Great Famine of Mount Lebanon
* Greek genocide
* Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory
* Hindu terrorism
* Hindutva
* Violence against Christians in India
* Late Ottoman genocides
* Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State
* Syrian Civil War spillover in Iraq
* Persecution of Copts

## References

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1. ^ Very doubtful considering the nature/composition of the new Syrian government, especially in the ongoing 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites and the wider clashes in Western Syria.

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* Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
* Boko Haram insurgency
* Military intervention against IS
* US intervention in Iraq
* US intervention in Syria
* Russian intervention in Syria
* Turkish operation
* Somalia

Battles|

| 2013|

* Akashat
* Hawija
* Raqqa
* Al-Shabah
* Ras al-Ayn
* Tell Abyad
* Latakia
* Menagh
* Sidi Ali Ben Aoun
* Sadad
* Qalamoun
* Aleppo
* Al-Yaarubiyah
* Tell Hamis and Tell Brak
* Anbar

|

2014|

* Fallujah
* N Aleppo
* Markada
* N Iraq (Jun)
* Mosul
* Salahuddin
* Baiji (Jun)
* Tikrit
* N Iraq (Aug)
* Kobanî
* Sinjar (Aug)
* Derna
* Ramadi
* Deir ez-Zor
* Baiji (14–15)
* Sinjar (Dec)
* Zumar
* Amirli

2015|

* Nofaliya
* W Africa
* Egyptian airstrikes in Libya
* Niger raid
* E al-Hasakah
* Tikrit
* Sirte
* Hama & Homs (Mar–Apr)
* Sarrin (Mar–Apr)
* Yarmouk
* Qalamoun
* Palmyra (May)
* W al-Hasakah
* Al-Hasakah city
* Tell Abyad
* Sarrin (Jun–Jul)
* Al-Hasakah
* Kobani
* Palmyra (Jul–Aug)
* Ramadi (15–16)
* Al-Qaryatayn
* Al-Hawl
* Homs (Nov–Dec)
* Sinjar
* E Aleppo (15–16)
* Niveneh Plains
* Tishrin Dam

2016|

* Deir ez-Zor (Jan)
* Fallujah (Feb–May)
* Nangarhar
* Ben Guerdane
* Ithriyah-Raqqa (Feb–Mar)
* Al-Shaddadi
* Khanasir
* Al-Qaryatayn (Mar–Apr)
* Palmyra (Mar)
* N Aleppo (Mar–Jun)
* Hīt
* Tipo-Tipo
* Sirte
* Ar-Rutbah
* N Raqqa
* Fallujah (May–Jun)
* Manbij
* Ithriyah-Raqqa (Jun)
* Abu Kamal
* al-Rai (Aug)
* N al-Bab (Sep)
* W al-Bab (Sep)
* Dabiq
* W al-Bab (Oct–Nov)
* Al-Bab
* Aleppo
* Palmyra

2017|

* Mosul (16–17)
* Raqqa (16–17)
* Palmyra
* Deir ez-Zor (Jan–Feb)
* E Aleppo (Jan–Apr)
* E Homs
* Hama
* W Nineveh
* Tabqa
* Syrian Desert (Dec 16–Apr 17)
* Syrian Desert (May–Jul)
* Maskanah
* Marawi
* Raqqa
* S Raqqa
* C Syria
* Tal Afar
* Deir ez-Zor (17–19)
* Hawija
* E Syria (Sep–Dec)
* NW Syria (Oct 17–Feb 18)
* Abu Kamal
* W Iraq

2018|

* As-Suwayda (Jun)
* S Syria
* As-Suwayda (Aug–Nov)

2019|

* Hajin
* Baghuz Fawqani
* Barisha raid

2020|

* Chinagodrar
* Danag
* Mocímboa da Praia
* Al Bayda

2021|

* Tessit
* Palma
* Sambisa
* Dangarous

2022|

* Al-Hasakah
* Atme raid
* Andéramboukane
* Talataye

2023|

* Falagountou
* Tin-Akoff

Attacks|

| 2014|

* Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting (May)
* Badush prison massacre (Jun)
* Camp Speicher massacre (Jun)
* Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming (Oct)

|

2015|

* Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege (Jan)
* Corinthia Hotel (Jan)
* Baghdad bombings (Feb)
* Beheading of Copts in Libya (Feb)
* Al Qubbah bombings (Feb)
* Bardo National Museum (Mar)
* Sanaa bombings (Mar)
* Jalalabad bombing (Apr)
* Killing of Christian migrants in Libya (Apr)
* Curtis Culwell Center (May)
* Qatif & Dammam bombings (May)
* 26 June
* Kobanî massacre
* Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Jun)
* Kuwait mosque bombing
* Sousse
* Khan Bani Saad bombing (Jul)
* Suruç bombing
* Baghdad bombing (Aug)
* Sanaa bombing (Sep)
* Ankara bombings
* Saihat shooting
* Metrojet Flight 9268
* Beirut bombings (Nov)
* Paris (Nov)
* Tunis bombing (Nov)
* San Bernardino (Dec)
* Qamishli bombings (Dec)

2016|

* Zliten truck bombing
* Hurghada (Jan)
* Baghdad–Miqdadiyah attacks (Jan)
* Istanbul bombing (Jan)
* Jakarta (Jan)
* Ramadi bombing (Jan)
* Mahasin mosque
* Sayyidah Zaynab (Jan)
* Mosul massacre
* Dikwa bombings (Feb)
* Homs bombings (Feb)
* Sayyidah Zaynab bombings (Feb)
* Baghdad bombings (Feb)
* Istanbul bombing (Mar)
* Brussels bombings
* Aden bombing
* Iskandariya bombing
* Baghdad bombing (Apr)
* Samawa bombing
* Gaziantep bombing (May)
* Baghdad bombings (11 May)
* Real Madrid fan club massacres
* Baghdad gas plant
* Yemen police bombings (15 May)
* Baghdad bombings (17 May)
* Jableh & Tartous bombings (May)
* Yemen bombings (23 May)
* Aktobe shootings
* Pulse nightclub shooting
* Magnanville stabbing
* Mukalla (Jun)
* Movida Bar
* Atatürk Airport
* Dhaka (Jul)
* Karrada bombing
* Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum
* Nice truck
* Würzburg train
* Kabul bombing (Jul)
* Ansbach bombing
* Normandy church
* Qamishli bombings (Jul)
* Charleroi stabbing
* Shchelkovo Highway police station
* Aden bombing (Aug)
* Syria bombings (5 Sep)
* Baghdad bombings (9 Sep)
* Baghdad bombings (Oct)
* Quetta police college
* Hamam al-Alil massacre
* Khuzdar bombing
* Samarinda bombing
* Hillah bombing (Nov)
* Aden bombings (Dec)
* Botroseya bombing
* Al-Karak
* Berlin truck
* Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin
* Baghdad bombings (Dec)

2017|

* Istanbul nightclub shooting
* Baghdad bombings (2 Jan)
* Azaz bombing (Jan)
* Sehwan bombing
* Kabul (Mar)
* Westminster
* St Petersburg Metro bombing
* Egypt church bombings
* Mastung bombing
* Manchester Arena bombing
* Jakarta bombings
* Minya
* Al-Faqma bombing
* London Bridge
* Brighton siege
* Tehran
* Pakistan attacks (Jun)
* Hurghada
* Quetta bombing (Aug)
* Barcelona
* Brussels (Aug)
* Nasiriyah
* Afghanistan (20 Oct)
* New York City truck
* Sinai mosque
* Kabul bombing (28 Dec)
* Saint Menas church

2018|

* Baghdad bombings
* Save The Children Jalalabad
* Kizlyar church shooting
* Kabul bombing (Mar)
* Carcasonne & Trèbes
* Kabul bombing (22 Apr)
* Kabul bombings (30 Apr)
* Tripoli
* Mako Brimob standoff
* Paris knife
* Surabaya bombings
* Liège
* Jalalabad bombing (Jul)
* Mastung & Bannu bombings
* Quetta bombing
* As-Suwayda
* Tajikistan attack
* Kabul (Sep)
* Ahvaz military parade
* Minya bus
* Melbourne stabbing
* Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland

2019|

* Jolo Cathedral bombings
* Sri Lanka Easter bombings
* Sainthamaruthu shootout
* Kabul bombing (17 Aug)

2020|

* Kabul shooting (6 Mar)
* Kabul gurdwara
* Xitaxi
* Afghanistan (May)
* Jalalabad prison
* Jolo bombings
* Kabul University
* Vienna
* Afghanistan (Dec)

2021|

* Machh
* January Baghdad bombings
* Kabul school bombing
* Kabul airport
* Kunduz bombing
* Kandahar bombing
* Kampala bombings
* Kabul hospital

2022|

* Diyala massacre
* Peshawar mosque
* Hadera shooting
* Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing
* Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings
* Bourasso and Namissiguima
* Kuje prison break
* 5 August Kabul bombing
* August Kabul mosque bombing
* Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul
* Shah Cheragh
* Kabul hotel

2023|

* Kabul airport bombing
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan bombing
* Al-Sukhnah
* Hama
* Khar bombing
* Arras school stabbing
* Pul-i-Khumri bombing
* Brussels shooting
* Kabul bombing (Nov)
* Paris
* Mindanao State University bombing

2024|

* Kerman bombings
* Istanbul church shooting
* Balochistan bombings
* Sibi bombing
* Mucojo attack
* Karabulak clash
* Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing
* Tillabéri attack
* Crocus City Hall attack
* 2024 Guzara Attack
* 2024 Bamyan shooting
* 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
* Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center hostage crisis
* 2024 Dagestan attacks
* 2024 attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade
* 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
* 2024 Kabul bus bombing
* Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis
* 2024 Solingen stabbing
* 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
* 2024 Afghanistan bus shooting

2025|

* 2025 New Orleans truck attack
* Malam-Fatori Suicide Bombing
* Kasanga massacre
* 2025 Villach stabbing attack
* 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
* Fambita mosque attack
* 2025 Southern Syria bombings

Politics and organization|

* Finances
* Education
* Ideology
* Medicare
* Military
* Armoured warfare
* Human rights
* Genocide of Christians
* Genocide of Shias
* Genocide of Yazidis
* Genocide of Turkmen
* Persecution of gay and bisexual men
* Killing of captives
* Beheading incidents
* Destruction of cultural heritage
* Occupation of Mosul
* Executions in Mosul

Relations|

* Iran and the Islamic State
* Philippines and the Islamic State
* United Kingdom and the Islamic State
* Trinidad and Tobago and the Islamic State
* Foreign fighters
* Name changes due to the Islamic State
* Portrayal of the Islamic State in American media
* Connection with Saddam Regime and Baath Party

Society|

* Members
* Terrorist cell in Brussels
* Territorial claims
* al-Barakah district
* Collaboration

Media|

* A Second Message to America
* Al-Bayan
* Al-Fatihin
* Al-Furat Media Center
* Al-Hayat Media Center
* Al-I'tisam Media Foundation
* Al-Naba
* Al-Raud
* Amaq News Agency
* Dar al-Islam
* Dabiq
* Dawlat al-Islam Qamat
* Flames of War: The Fighting Has Just Begun
* Huroof
* I'lam foundation
* Istok
* Konstantiniyye
* Rumiyah
* Salil al-Sawarim
* The End of Sykes-Picot
* Turkey and the Fire of Racism
* Voice of Khorasan

Related topics|

* Defeating ISIS
* The Islamic State (documentary)
* ISIS-chan
* Islamism
* Millenarianism
* Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency
* Shia–Sunni relations
* Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
* Theocracy

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* Persecution of Christians
* Anti-Christian sentiment

incident|

| Early Christianity|

* New Testament

|

Roman Empire|

* Great Fire of Rome
* Persecution in Lyon
* Decian persecution
* Diocletianic Persecution

Middle Ages|

* Homs revolts (854–855)
* Martyrs of Córdoba
* Bashmurian revolts
* Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
* Kisrawan campaigns (1292–1305)

Early modern|

* French Revolution
* Revolt in the Vendée
* Martyrs of Japan
* Kakure Kirishitan
* Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam

Modern|

* Constantinople massacre of 1821
* 1843 and 1846 massacres in Hakkari
* 1850 Aleppo
* 1860 Lebanon conflict
* Tianjin Massacre
* Kucheng massacre
* Tự Đức's Catholic persecution
* Hamidian massacres
* Diyarbekir
* Candia massacre
* Boxer Rebellion
* Adana massacre
* Great Famine of Mount Lebanon
* Armenian genocide
* Assyrian genocide
* Greek genocide
* İzmit massacres
* Cristero War
* Shusha massacre
* Red Terror (Spain)
* Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
* Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
* Istanbul pogrom
* Black Thursday
* Chouf massacres
* Damour massacre
* Mountain War (Lebanon)
* Beer Hall Putsch
* Eastern Bloc
* Persecution of Christians in the post–Cold War era
* Sumgait pogrom
* Maluku sectarian conflict
* Nag Hammadi massacre
* Kosheh massacres
* Boko Haram insurgency
* Maspero demonstrations
* 1998 attacks on Christians in southeastern Gujarat
* 1998 attacks on Christians in Dangs district
* 1998 Ramgiri-Udaygiri violence
* 1999 Ranalai violence
* 2007 Christmas violence in Kandhamal
* 2008 Kandhamal violence
* 2008 Kandhamal nun gang rape case
* 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka
* 2021 anti-Christian violence in Karnataka
* 2010 Manila hostage crisis
* Persecution by the Islamic State
* Mar Elias Church attack

persecutor|

| Early Christianity|

* Agrippa I

|

Roman Empire|

* Nero
* Domitian
* Septimius Severus
* Maximinus Thrax
* Decius
* Valerian

Late Antiquity|

* Diocletian
* Maximian
* Galerius
* Shapur II
* Athanaric

Middle Ages|

* Al-Mutawakkil
* Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
* Hulagu Khan
* Timur

Early modern|

* Toyotomi Hideyoshi
* Tokugawa Ieyasu
* Kangxi
* Tipu Sultan
* Minh Mạng
* Tự Đức
* Queen Jeongsun

Modern|

* Ranavalona I
* Mwanga II of Buganda
* Plutarco Elías Calles
* Tomás Garrido Canabal
* Bai Chongxi
* Enver Hoxha
* Three Pashas
* Vladimir Lenin
* Joseph Stalin
* Plutarco Elías Calles
* Cristero War
* Adolf Hitler
* Mao Zedong
* Pol Pot
* Kim Il-sung
* Abubakar Shekau
* Xi Jinping
* Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
* Kim Jong Un

country|

* Afghanistan
* Algeria
* Azerbaijan
* Burma
* Cambodia
* China
* Egypt
* France
* German Empire
* Nazi Germany
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Madagascar
* Malaysia
* Mexico
* Nigeria
* North Korea
* Ottoman Empire
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Saudi Arabia
* Somalia
* Soviet Union
* Spain
* Sudan
* Thailand
* Turkey
* Vietnam
* Yemen

persecuted group|

* Anabaptists
* Catholics
* Eastern Orthodox
* Mormons
* Violence against Mormons
* Oriental Orthodox
* Armenians
* Copts
* Protestants

Martyrs
(list)|

* Massacre of the Innocents
* Saint Stephen
* Carthusian Martyrs
* Chinese Martyrs
* Saint Martyrs of Jasenovac
* Drina Martyrs
* Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
* Korean Martyrs
* Martyrs of Japan
* Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
* New Martyrs
* North American Martyrs
* Saints of the Cristero War
* Uganda Martyrs
* Vietnamese Martyrs
* 233 Spanish Martyrs
* 498 Spanish Martyrs
* 522 Spanish Martyrs
* Martyrs of Turon
* Martyrs of Daimiel
* Eastern Catholics in the USSR
* 21 Martyrs of Libya

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Religious persecution and discrimination

By group|

* Religious exemption
* Persecution of non-believers
* Atheism
* Blasphemy law
* Religious censorship
* In Islam
* Apostasy
* Religious police
* Jizya
* Religious persecution
* In China
* Exclusivism
* Baháʼí Faith
* Buddhism
* Christianity
* Persecution
* Catholicism
* Eastern Orthodoxy
* Coptic Christianity
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* LDS or Mormon
* Protestantism
* Tewahedo Orthodoxy
* post–Cold War era
* Falun Gong
* Hinduism
* Persecution
* Untouchability
* Islam
* Persecution
* Ahmadiyya
* Shi'ism
* Sufism
* Sunnism
* minority Muslim
* Judaism
* Persecution
* Neopaganism
* Rastafari
* Serers
* Sikhism
* Yazidism
* Zoroastrianism

Methods|

* Censorship
* Blasphemy law
* Blood libel
* Communal violence
* Cultural genocide
* Deprogramming
* Desecration
* Domicide
* Discrimination
* Ethnic cleansing
* Ethnic conflict
* Extrajudicial killing
* Extrajudicial punishment
* Exclusivism
* Forced conversion
* Forced displacement
* Hate crime
* Iconoclasm
* Intolerance
* Pogrom
* Police
* Political violence
* Population cleansing
* Population transfer
* Sectarian violence
* Social cleansing
* Segregation
* State atheism
* State religion
* Terrorism
* Violence
* War

Events|

* Golden calf massacre (c.1250 BC)
* Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (64–313)
* Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire (c. 324–c. 491)
* Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent (c.550–c. 1200)
* Yellow Turban Rebellion (c.184–c. 205)
* Battle of Tours (732)
* Rhineland massacres (1096)
* Jerusalem massacre (1099)
* Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent (643–1526)
* Inquisition (1184–1908)
* Massacre at Ayyadieh (1191)
* Northern Crusades (12th–16th cent.)
* Crusades against Christians (13th–15th cent.)
* Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain (1500–1526)
* European wars of religion (1522–1712)
* Ottoman–Habsburg wars (1526–1791)
* Goa Inquisition (1561–1812)
* French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)
* Expulsion of the Moriscos (1609–1614)
* Test Acts (1673–1829)
* Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction (1683–1922)
* Christianization of the Sámi people (1700s)
* French Revolutionary dechristianisation (1789–1801)
* Utah War (1857–1858)
* 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war (1860)
* Circassian genocide (1864)
* Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
* Adana massacre (1909)
* Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
* Greek genocide (1913–1922)
* Pontic Greek genocide
* Assyrian genocide (1914–1924)
* Armenian genocide (1915–1923)
* Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc (1917–1990)
* Soviet persecution (1922–1991)
* 1917–1921
* 1921–1928
* 1928–1941
* 1958–1964
* 1970–1987
* legislation
* Šahovići massacre (1924)
* White Terror (Spain) (1936–1975)
* Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses (1933)
* The Holocaust (1939–1945)
* Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)
* Communist Polish persecution (1945–1989)
* Communist Romanian persecution (1945–1989)
* Noakhali riots (1946)
* Direct Action Day (1946)
* 1946 Bihar riots (1946)
* Rawalpindi massacres (1947)
* Persecution of Hindus in Pakistan (1947–ongoing)
* Violence against Muslims in India (1947–ongoing)
* Violence against Hindus in independent India (1947–ongoing)
* 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight (1948)
* Jewish exodus from the Muslim world (1948–1980)
* Antireligious campaigns in China (1949–ongoing)
* Persecution of Tibetans (1950–ongoing)
* Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria (1950)
* Religious violence in Nigeria (1953–ongoing)
* Istanbul pogrom (1955)
* Buddhist crisis (1963)
* Huế Phật Đản shootings (1963)
* Thích Quảng Đức (1963)
* Xá Lợi Pagoda raids (1963)
* Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)
* Four Olds (1966)
* Famen Temple (1966)
* Bangladesh genocide (1971)
* Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh (1971–ongoing)
* Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
* Cambodian genocide (1975–1979)
* 1984 anti-Sikh riots (1984)
* Revival Process (1984–1989)
* 1989 expulsion of Turks from Bulgaria (1989)
* Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus (1990)
* Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001)
* Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War (1992–1996)
* Bosnian genocide (1995)
* War crimes in the Kosovo War (1999)
* Walisongo school massacre (2000)
* Kosheh massacres (2000)
* September 11 attacks (2001)
* 2002 Gujarat riots (2002)
* South Thailand insurgency (2004–ongoing)
* Boko Haram insurgency (2009–ongoing)
* Maspero demonstrations (2011)
* Attacks by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh (2013–2016)
* Yazidi genocide (2014–2017)
* Genocide of Christians by ISIL (2014–ongoing)
* Iraqi Turkmen genocide (2014–2017)
* Persecution of Uyghurs in China (2014–ongoing)
* Rohingya genocide (2016–ongoing)
* Christchurch mosque shootings (2019)
* 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings (2019)
* 2020 Delhi riots (2020)
* 2024 Istanbul church shooting
* Crocus City Hall attack (2024)

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