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China orders Christians to take down crosses, images of Jesus; worship communist leaders not God
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, poor Christian villagers in China have been ordered to renounce their faith and replace displays of Jesus with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping…
Christian missionary, father-of-4 brutally murdered in India by Maoists
A Christian missionary and father-of-four was brutally murdered by a Maoist group in India angered by his mission work amid a rise in religious persecution across the country. Read More…
India: Christians faced 135 cases of persecution in first half of 2020; believers lynched, sodomized
In India, 135 cases of persecution occurred in the first half of 2020, including a lynching, community ostracization, and the sodomization and murder of two Christian men, a new report has…
Wife of missing Malaysian Pastor Raymond Koh vows to fight for answers: ‘I have faith’
The wife of missing Malaysian Pastor Raymond Koh has vowed to continue fighting to find her husband, saying her faith compels her to believe he might still be found three…
Sudan abolishes death penalty for apostasy, reforms Islamist laws after 3 decades
The transitional government in Sudan passed a series of amendments that repeal the death sentence for apostasy, public flogging and female genital mutilation, giving Christians hope for the future following…
88-y-o Chinese bishop who refused to join Communist-controlled church feared dead
An 88-year-old underground Chinese bishop, who was arrested for refusing to join the state-approved Catholic Church, is feared dead as state officials urge the Vatican to recognize his assistant as…
1,202 Nigerian Christians killed in first 6 months of 2020: NGO report
A Nigerian civil society group estimates that 1,202 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the first six months of 2020 by jihadists, radicalized herdsmen and others as 22 more…
Gunmen kill at least 5 at South African megachurch, create ‘hostage situation’
At least four people were shot and burnt to death while another was fatally shot at a Pentecostal megachurch that has more than a million members after gunmen stormed its…
Millions of children forced into labor as COVID-19 creates global hunger crisis: World Vision
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused at least 110 million children to go hungry and pushed 8 million others into child labor and begging, according to assessments in 24 countries across…