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Pretoria, South Africa - Thousands of Christians marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on October 9, 2025, protesting the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities' (CRL Rights Commission) newly formed Section 22 Committee, which religious leaders say is an
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Wad Madani, Sudan - Between 13 and 29 South Sudanese Christians were executed and beheaded by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) troops in Wad Madani on January 11, 2025, after government forces recaptured the strategic city from rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. Videos circulated on social media showing government troops
Oceania
United States — Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the "masculine" Christian religion through online influencers. Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the "feminization" of the Protestant church and were attracted to the "authenticity" of Orthodoxy, which they claim
Battle Lines
For many communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and parts of the South, mass slaughter and repeated raids have become a traumatic, recurring reality. Two things feed into that cycle: (1) persistent violence by armed groups including Islamist militants and heavily armed pastoralist militias widely believed to be Fulani-linked, and
Protestant News
This is the first installment of a series of 5 articles titled The War on Christian Men: A systematic examination of how modern culture attacks masculinity. It’s getting harder and harder to deny it: there is a widespread crisis of masculinity, and most significantly, of Christian masculinity. The stats
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Seoul, South Korea — Evangelicalism is growing around the world but nowhere more so than in Africa where the increase has been "explosive," researcher Jason Mandryk told the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) at its World General Assembly in Seoul this week. Mandryk, a Christian researcher with Operation World, reported
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Niamey, Niger — Kevin Rideout, a 48-year-old American Christian missionary pilot, was abducted from his home in Niamey, Niger's capital, on the night of October 22, 2025. Three gunmen raided Rideout's home compound, located approximately 100 yards from Niger's Presidential Palace. Rideout had lived in
Africa
Niger, West Africa — Christians in Niger face escalating persecution from Islamic extremist groups operating across the Sahel region, with violence dramatically worsening following the July 2023 military coup that brought General Abdourahamane Tiani to power. The jihadist group al-Sunnah wa Jama'ah (ASWJ), along with Islamic State affiliates including
Protestant News
Vatican City — Aid to the Church in Need released its 2025 Religious Freedom in the World Report on October 21, 2025, revealing that 5.4 billion people live in countries with serious violations of religious freedom. The report indicates that 340 million Christians worldwide are currently facing high levels of
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Assiut, Egypt — An 18-year-old middle-class Coptic Christian woman disappeared on June 1 after going to school, caught in what Coptic Solidarity describes as a sophisticated Islamist trafficking network using social media to groom and abduct Christian girls. A network of Muslim girls at her school in Assiut Governate had targeted
Catholic News
Maiduguri, Nigeria - Catherine Ibrahim, a Nigerian Christian woman, has shared her harrowing account of surviving Boko Haram atrocities that claimed her husband's life and left her separated from her children for three years, in an interview with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. Catherine described
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Sign the PetitionEND GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIANS AND INDIGENES OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA.Change.org We have signed this petition and I'm urging every Christian who reads this to do the same. Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria are being systematically slaughtered. This isn't hyperbole. It's