Christian convert from Sudan expelled from home in Uganda
Life seemed to be looking better for a refugee from Sudan who had fled to Ethiopia and South Sudan, put his faith in Christ, and then found a job at his uncle’s business in Uganda.
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Devastating attack in northeastern Nigeria despite the presence of U.S. troops
Gwoza, in northeastern Nigeria, is reeling after a series of attacks that left dozens dead and hundreds displaced in spite of U.S. military presence nearby. The U.S. intervention appears to have had little immediate impact in preventing the massacres of Christians and moderate Muslims in central and northeastern Nigeria.
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The girl who is missing from class on International Women’s Day
Sunday March 8 is International Women's Day—a day when the world remembers that women and girls matter. That the basic needs of women and girls can provide an opportunity for exploitation is not well known, especially in the West. One By One is a ministry providing a practical way to close one of those exploitative doors.
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The Banyamulenge deserve to be heard as mass killing continues in eastern DRC
The Banyamulenge people in Minembwe, DRC are facing an existential threat as powerful forces brutally displace them from their land, burn their churches, and destroy their livelihood. Yet the international community, including the Church, remains silent. Even as war unfolds elsewhere, the plight to the Banyamulenge Tutsi deserves to be heard, and urgent action undertaken to protect their well-being.
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Benefitting from God's perfect work of patience
In the 1970s Stanford Experiment, children were driven by tangible, temporal reward if they waited before taking a marshmallow. In real life, for the believer, patience is attached to spiritual and eternal hope and truth, even when the waiting is hard. Patience is a work God does rather than a virtue we must apply.
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Pastor in Nigeria facing death threats for pleas for protection
A pastor in Nigeria is facing death threats for speaking out on Islamic extremist attacks on Christians and calling for protection against “genocide.”
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Islamist protest in Yumbe, Uganda leaves five Christians dead
Five Christians were killed and 44 others injured on Nov. 4 after an Islamist leader incited Muslims to attack Christians over pork sales near a mosque in Yumbe, northern Uganda, sources said.
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African Union responds to Trump on Nigeria religious freedom claims
The African Union Commission (AUC) has added its voice about religious freedoms in Nigeria, expressing concern over claims that President Bola Tinubu’s government is complicit in the killing of Christians in the northern part of the country.
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Christians killed in NW Nigeria, homes burned in northeast
Seven Christians, including a 12-year-old boy, were mourned on Saturday (Nov. 8) after they were killed in an attack in Kaduna state, Nigeria, the same day Islamic extremists burned homes and a church building in Borno state.
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Christians and Muslims clash in Northern Uganda over sale of pork in Yumbe district
Several people were injured when Muslims and Christians clashed in Yumbe district in Northern Uganda, West Nile Sub-region, following a plan by a Christian businessman to open a pork outlet in Yumbe town. According to several local media outlets the protests on Nov. 4 were said to have been led by Sheikh Kasim Abdalla upon reports of an establishment that introduced pork in the area.
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Major new report maps how the world engages with the Bible
The Bible Society has unveiled a sweeping analysis of how culture, religion, politics and economics shape engagement with Scripture across the globe. The Patmos Typology Report, developed with the United Bible Societies and built on Gallup’s data science, examines 85 countries and territories across seven 'missiological clusters' that reveal current opportunities and barriers for Bible work.
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Christian Vision reports first conversion during live in-game evangelism session
A global evangelism organization says it recorded its first known instance of a person committing to the Christian faith during a live, in-game interaction streamed in real time on a Discord server.
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