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SRI LANKA: Church Ordered to Find New Location

On the morning of 3 December, police entered the Assembly of God church in the town of Makola, which is located near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The officer in charge questioned whether the ser...

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PAKISTAN: Christian Brothers Face Torture and Forced Islamic Conversion

Two Christian brothers, Azam and Nadeem Masih from Kharota Syedan, Sialkot, Punjab, faced the horror of forced conversion to Islam under severe duress. On 22 January, they were reportedly abducted by ...

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IRAN: Armenian Christian Prisoner Trial Results Still Unknown

Last summer, Hakop, an Armenian citizen, travelled to Iran to visit his wife Elisa’s family. Elisa comes from an Iranian-Armenian family. On 16 August, they were arrested while visiting their fri...

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ERITREA: More Christian Youth Released from Prison

In April 2023, more than one hundred talented Christian young people, who are members of a musical group known as the Mahalians, were arrested after recording songs of praise that they had intended to...

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MEXICO: Bold Witness Beaten 40 Times

Gabriela lives in a rural village in Oaxaca, Mexico, where members of her Mixteca community adhere to Christo-paganism, a syncretistic blend of pagan practices and Roman Catholicism that is opposed to...

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ALGERIA: Christians Struggle Amid Government Crackdown on Churches

In Algeria, 97 percent of people are Sunni Muslims. Christian converts from Islam are persecuted by the government and their own family members. They also face a variety of hardships from the local co...

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SUDAN: Extremists Kill Christian Man, Set Church Ablaze

Karbino Bla, a Christian Sudanese man, succumbed to his injuries on 5 January, five days after he was assaulted by members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Wad Medani. One week later, Muslim ex...

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BRUNEI: Compulsory Islamic Teaching in Schools

Brunei is a Muslim-majority nation under the rule of a dynastic sultan and Islamic law. Almost 80 percent of Bruneians are Sunni Muslims, and nearly all of the 9 percent who are Christians are ethnica...

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CHINA: Police Question Church Elder and Confiscate His Computer

For the past five years, Elder Li Yingqiang has been repeatedly subjected to questioning and detention since the Chinese Communist Party began targeting the Early Rain Covenant Church. In the most ...

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