Pray for one today
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Hebreeën 13:3
This is not a full count. The commission lists only the cases it can document, and most people held for their faith are on no list.
The same list names people of other faiths. They are not on this page. See how many
Also on the list
The commission groups Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of Almighty God with Christians. The Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches count them as separate faiths, so they are counted here.
What this list is
The commission calls its cases indicative, not a full count: most people held for their faith are on no list. It records a person’s faith as they or those who speak for them report it. Prisoners are released, moved and sometimes die in custody, so we read the list again every month, and a name leaves this page when the commission records a release.
We show only what the commission publishes: a name, a country and a date. Choose a name to open the commission’s own record of that person.