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More than 11,000 people were displaced from 16 different villages last week in the Miango community of Nigeria’s Plateau State. Militant Fulani herdsmen were reported to have conducted the attacks on the farming communities. “This is the risk to farm as a Christian,”...

Recently, as a Guiyang City house church held a memorial service for an elderly Christian at a local funeral home, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials raided the venue, and forcibly confiscated religious memorabilia. CCP authorities removed the tablecloth...

‘Ahmed’ knows well the cost of following Christ. When the Algerian man became a Christian in April 2013, his wife began seeing positive changes in his life. As a result, three months later, she also professed a faith in Christ. After the couple was baptised in 2015,...

Pastor Wang Yi is the influential leader of Early Rain Covenant Church in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province – one of the best-known house churches in China. He was detained in December 2018 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and “illegal...

Christian convert Nasser Navard Goltapeh, 59, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence. Nasser was arrested in June 2016 at a private gathering in Tehran, along with three foreign visitors. They were held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison for two months,...

This year, 154 incidents of Christian persecution have been confirmed by activists in India. The confirmed incidents come from 17 different states and mark only the first half of 2021. Mob violence accompanied by police at places of worship to disrupt prayer or church...

After more than 140 students were abducted from a Christian boarding school in Kaduna State in north-western Nigeria, authorities have ordered the closure of schools in the area, identifying them as “vulnerable”. The head of the Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance...

Two 13-year-old girls from Christian families have been forcibly married to their employers and converted to Islam in separate incidents.

The Union Church of Libya requests prayer for a new church building as they are facing eviction from their current premises.

Iranian Christians request prayer for a convert whose 10-month prison sentence for “propaganda against the regime” was upheld by the court of appeal on 26 June. Hamed was arrested in Karaj on 23 February 2019. Security agents then raided his home, confiscating Bibles,...