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Church building in Omdurman, Sudan threatened with demolition Christians in India lose ancestral home for faith in Christ Muslims sentenced to death for killing two evangelists in Uganda Government help sought to recover pastor’s wife, daughter in Nigeria Authorities in Egypt hold Christian incommunicado Islamic extremists kill Christians in mass shooting at funeral in Jordan Court in Pakistan adjourns hearing on Christians’ abducted daughter

Mai Sato, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, addresses a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran, in Geneva, Jan. 23, 2026.

UN rapporteur links Tehran church seizure to wider pressure on Iran’s Christians

Iran has replied to only one of the eight communications U.N. human rights experts have sent it about Christians since 2011, and that single reply described Christian converts as a threat to national security.

7 mins read Middle East

6 highlights from midterm election night

Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

8 mins read US & Canada
COALA4.0: Global South churches urged to receive and host one another's missionaries

4 mins read Global

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The Rev. Botrus Mansour, secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance, and other church leaders gather at a wreath laid by the alliance at the graves of victims of a church funeral shooting in Hmoud, in Jordan’s Karak governorate.

Head of global evangelical body visits Jordanian village where gunmen killed 9 at church funeral

Church building in Omdurman, Sudan threatened with demolition

4 mins read Africa
Rights attorneys in Pakistan sentenced to 10 years in prison

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Report warns persecution in Africa ‘worsened’ as conflict and abductions increased in Nigeria

6 mins read Africa

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