{"id":884,"date":"2026-05-27T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualidadereligiosa.pt\/en\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/religious-persecution-in-europe-and-the-americas-has-become-a-trend-acn-international\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:54:30","slug":"religious-persecution-in-europe-and-the-americas-has-become-a-trend-acn-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualidadereligiosa.pt\/en\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/religious-persecution-in-europe-and-the-americas-has-become-a-trend-acn-international\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReligious persecution in Europe and the Americas has become a trend\u201d &#8211; ACN International"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/actualidadereligiosa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Captura-de-ecra-2026-05-27-234544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3056\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My article for ACN &#8211; International about violence and persecution of Christians in Western countries, based on a presentation by Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Baz\u00e1n, a specialist on anti-Christian persecution. <a href=\"https:\/\/acninternational.org\/religious-persecution-in-europe-and-the-americas-has-become-a-trend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article for ACN &#8211; International about violence and persecution of Christians in Western countries, based on a presentation by Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Baz\u00e1n, a specialist on anti-Christian persecution. <span class=\"more-tag d-block mt-15\"><a class=\"more-link wp-block-button__link icon-inline\" href=\"https:\/\/actualidadereligiosa.pt\/en\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/religious-persecution-in-europe-and-the-americas-has-become-a-trend-acn-international\/\">Continuar a ler<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"\u201cReligious persecution in Europe and the Americas has become a trend\u201d &#8211; ACN International\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><!-- .more-tag --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[80,81,310,339],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artigos-e-comentario-na-imprensa","category-posts-in-english","tag-acn","tag-acn-international","tag-christian-persecution","tag-jose-luis-bazan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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