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NORTH KOREA: Human rights award for detained South Korean missionaries

Three South Korean missionaries detained in North Korea are to receive the Meijide Human Rights Award

Pastor John Cao has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer and his family has travelled from the US to visit him in hospital

Pastor Huang Yizi is due to stand trial again after being arrested for the third time since 2014

Two leaders of Linfen Covenant Home Church have been released after completing their prison sentences

Most of the 24 released prisoners had been held for over two years including one man who had been in prison for 18 years.

Pastor John Cao, who was imprisoned from 2017 to 2024, has been hospitalised with severe pain in his back and legs

Christian convert Said Abdelrazek was arrested after trying to change his religion on ID documents and now faces a court hearing

Maharashtra state has passed new anti-conversion laws and Chhattisgarh state has intensified its laws

A new report documents 747 incidents of violence, threats and discrimination against Indian Christians in 2025

The family of a Christian prisoner who was due for release before the war has lost contact with her

A Christian woman has escaped with her baby after three and a half years in captivity

In the past three months dozens of Yemeni Christians have been detained by the Houthi rebels who control northwest Yemen

A new joint report titled “Scapegoats: Rights Violations Against Christians in Iran” documents persecution of Iranian Christians throughout 2025

Two leaders of Ganquan Church in Hefei have been given prison sentences of at least four years for “fraud”

The European Court of Human Rights has taken up twenty cases of Christians banned from re-entry into Türkiye

The Christians were kidnapped by Fulani militants from three churches in Kurmin Wali village on Sunday 18 January

Hindu nationalists attacked Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik, paraded him through his village and forced him to worship a Hindu god

Detained Early Rain Church leader Elder Li Yingqiang and member Brother Lin have been charged with “inciting subversion of state power”

166 Christians were abducted from three church services in Kurmin Wali, Kaduna state on 18 January

The violent crackdown on widespread mass protests has left many thousands dead