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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the church that would not bow to the Reich A Lutheran pastor opposed Nazism from 1933 and was hanged in April 1945, and his life shows what faithful resistance asks of believers. 1915, the Armenian genocide and the Christian peoples who perished with them The Ottoman campaign that began in 1915 destroyed Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christian communities, and America took a century to name it. How China's Communist Party licenses churches and jails pastors China guarantees belief on paper, runs worship through state-controlled bodies and punishes believers outside them, from Christians to Falun Gong. The 2016 genocide finding for Yazidis and Christians under ISIS rule In March 2016 the United States formally declared that ISIS was committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims, and the record shows why. The 1998 law that put religious persecution on America's foreign agenda The International Religious Freedom Act created a commission, an ambassador and an annual report so that persecution abroad would stay on the official record.