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ALGERIA: Appeal Scheduled for Pastor Youssef Ourahmane

Pastor Youssef Ourahmane serves as the vice president of the Église Protestante d'Algérie (EPA). Following a three-day gathering with a few Christian families in March 2023, he was charged with org...

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VIETNAM: House Church Members Released

After one week in prison, three members of an independent Protestant house church in Vietnam have been released to their families and are now home. The three men, all related, were arbitrarily arre...

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PAKISTAN: Christian Girl Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted

The Christian parents of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan who was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam last month, fear she could be sold to sex traffickers, sources said. A month after Laiba Suh...

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NORTH KOREA: Gospel Message Making (Air)Waves

For years, front-line workers have been broadcasting the gospel message into North Korea using short-wave radio. Their broadcasts include Bible readings, sermons by early Korean Christians, hymns and ...

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CHINA: John Cao Freed after Seven Years Imprisonment

Pastor John Cao has been freed from prison in China’s Yunnan province, after serving a seven-year sentence. Cao, who lived with his family in North Carolina, had served as a missionary in Myanma...

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PAKISTAN: Christians in Jaranwala, Pakistan Acquitted of Blasphemy Charges

A judge in Pakistan on Friday 1 March acquitted two Christian brothers of false blasphemy charges that had led to Muslims attacking Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala last year, sources said....

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IRAN: Illustrated Bible Changes Woman’s Life

Darya was depressed and scared. Her much older husband had suddenly died of a stroke, and her 8-year-old son had become angry and violent. “I consulted with different psychologists about my son’s ...

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UKRAINE: Priest Fatally Tortured; Others Facing Deportation

Members of the Russian occupation forces seized Father Stepan Podolchak on 13 February. The Christian leader had been serving as the abbot of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Kalanchak, a village loc...

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NIGERIA: Terrorists Kill 23 in Three-Day String of Attacks

From 16 to 19 February, suspected Islamic terrorists killed 23 people, injured 10, kidnapped five, and set ablaze 28 houses across multiple villages in Nigeria. It is unknown if these are coordinated ...

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