Imagine that you have the opportunity to go to a religious meeting with the Belarusian president Lukashenko. What would you say if you had five minutes to speak in that service? Zmicier Chviedaruk from Belarus gives some thoughts.

Two years ago, bulldozers flattened the church building where Matvey and his wife went. Now, the field where the church once stood lays empty on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.

Growing up as a Christian, I was led to believe that if I accepted Christ and became a born-again Christian, my life would be filled with happiness. Then, I realised that I was wrong.

This week, it was 80 years ago that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated from the Nazis. This concentration camp scarred the lives of an uncountable number of people. But now, people are forgetting about it.

As Dutch envoy of religious freedom, Bea ten Tusscher gratefully uses the Open Doors’ World Watch list that ranks persecution of Christians. “It makes persecution visible”, she says. “Although the underlying stories are often more complex.”