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From Asia and Africa to the Middle East and Latin America, we work to amplify the voices of the persecuted, document violations of religious freedom, and bring biblically grounded context to the headlines.

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Concerns Over 5 Jailed Christians in China’s Southwest
Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2022
Concerns mount over the plight of five Christians detained since early August in a rural area of China’s southwestern Yunnan province as part of a broader crackdown, Worthy News learned Saturday.
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Nigeria: 45 Christians abducted during church service in Kaduna
Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2022
Forty-five worshippers were kidnapped when jihadists stormed a church in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, Sahara Reporters said. Monday’s attack took place during a service at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Kasuwa quarters of Kasuwan Magani Town,…
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Myanmar: Junta lays landmines around church
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2022
Myanmar’s military junta has laid internationally banned antipersonnel landmines around a Catholic church building it has desecrated and occupied in the ethnic minority Shan state, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
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Mozambique: Eight Christians murdered by Islamic State affiliates
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2022
ight Christians were murdered by the Islamic State-affiliated Al Shabaab terror group (not the Somali-based group of the same name) in a series of jihadist attacks across northern Mozambique in September, the Barnabas Fund reports.
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Libya Court To Evict Church
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2022
A Libyan court has ordered the Protestant ‘Union Church in Tripoli’ (UCT) to vacate its building by 27 September or be forcibly evicted, Christians told Worthy News Tuesday.
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Nigeria: Fulani murder church security guard, abduct pastor
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2022
As the slaughter and kidnapping of Christians in Nigeria continues, on September 11, suspected Fulani jihadists murdered a Christian security guard during the course of abducting a pastor from his church premises in Plateau state, Morning Star News…
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China: Christian online content now heavily restricted
Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Christians in China are suffering under regulations rolled out this year, which impose heavy restrictions on online sharing of religious content, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
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Libya Court Sentences Christian To Death
Posted on Monday, September 12, 2022
Libyan Christians urged prayers Monday after a former Muslim who converted to Christianity was sentenced to death by an appeals court in western Libya, sources familiar with the case said.
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Uganda: 5 evangelist-church planters murdered by Islamic extremists
Posted on Monday, September 12, 2022
Islamic extremists in Uganda murdered five evangelists from the End Time Word Ministry church last month by throwing them off the commercial transport boat they were preaching the Gospel and traveling to plant a church, Morning Star News…
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Church Rush To Pakistan’s Flooded Christian Slums
Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2022
The evangelical Church of Christ (COC) congregation with several branches in flood-stricken Pakistan is rushing with aid to Christian slums, the church’s leader and evangelist told Worthy News on Thursday.
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Nigeria: Fulani murder six more Christians in ongoing slaughter
Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2022
Fulani jihadi herdsmen are continuing their slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, murdering six Christians in Benue state on September 1, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. By the end of last year, Islamic extremists in Nigeria had murdered 43,000…

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