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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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Kidnappers Free Nigerian Priests, Cook Killed
Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Nigerian priest Joseph Danjuma Shekari was free Tuesday after suspected Islamic gunmen briefly abducted him from his parish house in northern Nigeria, church sources said.
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India: Hindu radicals attack two pastors in Haryana state
Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2022
A group of Hindu extremists violently attacked two pastors in northern India’s Haryana state last month, accusing them of receiving foreign funding to forcibly convert Hindus to Christianity, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Persecution of Christians in India…
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Algeria: Government threatening to shut down another Protestant church
Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Algerian government authorities are threatening to shut down yet another church from the Protestant Church of Algeria (Église Protestante d’Algérie– EPA) denomination, having closed 16 EPA churches already, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. While Algeria has the second-largest…
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Uganda: Evangelist beaten and left to die by Islamic extremists
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2022
Ugandan evangelist Charles Kamya was beaten unconscious and left for dead in Kampala, Uganda last week by Islamic extremists enraged at his preaching the Gospel, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Although Muslims are a small minority in Uganda,…
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India: Christians pray and fast for unity as persecution intensifies
Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2022
As persecution against Christians in India intensifies, many Indian believers spent Sunday 30 January, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in 1948, in prayer and fasting for peace and unity in their country, Christian Today (CT) reports.
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Cuba: Head of Protestant denomination placed under house arrest
Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2022
Cuba’s communist government has placed the President of the Christian Reformed Church of Cuba under house arrest on apparently trumped-up charges of receiving illegal goods, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
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Liberia: Twenty-nine killed in stampede at Christian worship event
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Twenty-nine worshippers were killed in a stampede at an all-night Christian worship event in Liberia last month, after a violent street gang attacked organizers on the stage while an offering was being collected, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
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Iran To Review Jail Sentences Of Christians
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Iranian Christians say they “are thankful” that Christian convert Naser Navard Goltapeh’s jail the sentence “will be reviewed” by Iran’s Supreme Court after years of prayers and campaigns, Worthy News learned Monday.
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Nigeria Frees Pro-Christian Journalist On Bail
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Rights activists have welcomed a decision by Nigerian authorities to release on bail a jailed journalist who publicly condemned the government's perceived lack of response to the massive killings of Christians.
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Iran continues to persecute Christians, new report shows
Posted on Monday, January 31, 2022
A new report on the persecution of Christians in Iran has called on Tehran to end the criminalization of house churches and membership, and for the international community to hold the Islamic regime to account for ongoing human…
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Nigeria: 11 Christians murdered in attack by Fulani militants
Posted on Monday, January 31, 2022
The slaughter of Christians by Fulani terrorists in Nigeria continues: 11 people, including a grandmother who was burned to death, were murdered in a terror attack in Kaduna state on Sunday, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Nigeria ranked…
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Uganda: Christian pastor dies from beating by Muslim relatives
Posted on Monday, January 31, 2022
A former Imam who became a Christian pastor in eastern Uganda has died from injuries he sustained during a violent attack by relatives enraged at his conversion, Christian Headlines (CH). Christianity is legal in Uganda, but believers have…
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Pakistan Pastor Shot And Killed; Christians Mourn
Posted on Monday, January 31, 2022
Christians in Pakistan have been plunged into mourning after a 75-year-old pastor was shot and killed in the northwestern city of Peshawar amid rising Islamic extremism in the country.
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Nigeria Islamic Herdsmen Kill 22 Christians
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2022
Suspected Fulani herdsmen who seek to take over farmland and impose Islam have killed as many as 22 Christians in central Nigeria, Christian sources said Friday.
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US Christian ministries reach out to help vulnerable children in Iran
Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2022
US Christian ministry Heart4Iran has joined with CBN’s Superbook to conduct an outreach to thousands of desperately vulnerable children in Iran, CBN News reports. Many of these children are from families of Afghan refugees who escaped the Taliban,…

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