The Faith Under Siege project is a mutual collaboration between the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., and Aid to the Church in Need USA, located in New York City. The project grew out of common activities between the two institutions, beginning with the publication in 2025 of Dr. Robert Royal’s book Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century. It consists in a series of publications, podcasts, and political efforts to make better known the plight of hundreds of millions of Christians who today face persecution and, in no small number of cases, death for their Faith.
From Ukraine to Africa, the Middle East to Latin America, the modern world continues to pressure Christians in a variety of circumstances. Some have said that the twentieth century – with its totalitarian movements such as Communism, Fascism, and Nazism – produced more martyrs than all previous Christian centuries combined. After only the first quarter of the present century, the body counts continue to mount up. Faith Under Siege seeks not only to record the facts about these slaughters, but to encourage everyone – governments, international bodies, churches, individuals – to do something to protect the innocent victims of anti-Christian attitudes worldwide.