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  Baptist pastor faces expulsion from Russian-occupied Ukraine

  The Rev. Vladimir Rytikov faces expulsion from his birthplace in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine after authorities accused him of “illegal missionary activity” and cancelled his residence permit, a rights watchdog reports.

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  J.John to keynote Church Leaders Conference at CRE 2026 in UK

  The Church Resources Exhibition (CRE), previously known as the Christian Resources Exhibition, has announced evangelist J.John as a keynote speaker for its newly launched Church Leaders Conference in England this October.

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  'A spring cleaning for the soul': Swiss church leaders link the annual cleaning ritual to spiritual renewal and forgiveness

  A seasonal push for spring cleaning may be more than a household task, some Christian leaders in Switzerland say. They argue that decluttering physical spaces can also lead to spiritual renewal, according to a report published by Dienstagsmail.

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  'Freedom of religion must be for everybody,' Bishop Mounstephen says, calling it a test for societies

  The global push for freedom of religion or belief has gained visibility since the publication of a landmark 2019 review commissioned by the U.K. government. But worsening conditions for religious minorities and declining political momentum threaten to undermine progress, according to Philip Mounstephen, former Bishop of Truro and author of the influential report.

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  Yet more voices point to religiously illiterate BBC

  Roger Bolton, who presented Radio 4’s “Feedback” programme for over two decades, was speaking to the Religion Media Centre, when he lamented the BBC’s “relative illiteracy about religion, both what it is and the way it’s practised”.

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  Russia strikes Baptist church in Ukraine, killing pastor at prayer meeting

  Russia struck a Baptist church in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia during a prayer meeting this week, killing at least one person, a minister, and injuring at least eight others. 

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  Marcham+10 conference opens with renewed urgency to address gender-specific religious persecution

  A decade after a small gathering in 2016 first sought to name and address the distinct ways religious persecution affects women, the Marcham+10 conference began on Friday (April 17), highlighting both progress and persistent challenges in confronting what is now widely termed “gender-specific religious persecution.”

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