Weekly Prayer Updates

Residents of Benue state are devastated once again, following the recent massacre of over 100 people in a predominantly Christian village on 13 June. Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu spoke out aga...

A suicide bomber detonated himself during worship on Sunday, 22 June, inside Mar Elyas Greek Orthodox Church in the Dwelia neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. The attack resulted in the deaths of at ...

Churches in occupied areas of eastern Ukraine continue to experience ongoing opposition from Russian-installed authorities. For Christians within the region, this has led to harsh restrictions on plac...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China’s ruling political class, released a plan on 7 May mandating Protestant churches to alter their worship music to include songs and lyrics praising communism,...

A Christian convert and former asylum-seeker who was sentenced to two years in prison on her return to Iran has been released conditionally after over 15 months in jail. Laleh Saati, 46, was releas...

A Christian woman was forced to flee after her family threatened to kill her. The young woman became a follower of Christ as a girl, after meeting Christians when she left her village to attend school...

In the early morning of 29 April, a minibus filled with quarry workers wheeled through the arid land of Bur Abor village in Mandera County, Kenya. The passengers, mostly labourers from other regions o...

On 30 May, the Delhi High Court upheld the Indian Army's decision to dismiss a Christian lieutenant for refusing to take part in certain Hindu religious rituals practised by his regiment. Lieutenan...

Over the past week, branches of Beijing Zion Church in multiple cities have been raided and harassed, with a large number of church members being summoned for questioning. On 1 June, the Sunday wor...