A new report refers to new and longstanding prisoners of conscience, the rise in numbers of refugees and continued acts of bigotry against Jews and Muslims in Europe.
A Yazidi teenager who escaped ISIS sex slavery has said she was kidnapped and trafficked by the "new Jihadi John", British Muslim-convert Siddhartha Dhar.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom found that religious liberty has deteriorated across the globe, with abuses committed by both state and non-state actors.
Christians and other religious minorities are being persecuted in Swedish refugee camps, and provisions must be made for their safety, campaigners say.
Up 40 people or more have been slaughtered in a new atrocity by an armed force of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria's Enugu State, according to local reports.
There's a persecution that is "cross-dressed as culture, cross-dressed as modernity, cross-dressed as progress", the Pope has said. But what does he mean?