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INDIA: Pastor faces false charge; church and home set on fire

A pastor who was threatened by a neighbour on several occasions and falsely accused of assault in May had his church and home set on fire in June

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri has been released from detention after diplomatic talks and arrived in Los Angeles on 4 July

An appeals court has upheld sentences totalling over seventy years imposed on five Christians for their religious activities

Nadia Nadeem and Nadeem Masih are appealing for the return of their kidnapped daughter Amber Nadeem

Victims of the Sukma church attack returned to their village after being discharged from hospital to find their homes looted

Christian convert Mary Mohammadi disappeared in February and is believed to be detained by the authorities

Nine of the eighteen Zion Church pastors and coworkers detained in October 2025 have been released on bail

Detained pastor Sun Cong from Beijing Zion Church has been permitted to receive a Bible after a successful legal challenge

Police took away 33 church members including two elders, Wu Wuqing and Yan Hong

Four men have been convicted of the terror attack on St Francis Church in Ondo state on Pentecost Sunday 2022

The Egyptian government has issued an order legalising 191 more churches and affiliated service buildings

Anxieties revived that the family could be split

At least 25 Christians including a pastor and his pregnant wife have been injured in an attack on a worship gathering in Chhattisgarh

31 members of a house church in Suizhou, Hubei province, have been given sentences of up to four years in prison

This chant marked the start of the annual Prayer and Protest Vigil at the Eritrean Embassy in London on behalf of persecuted Christians in Eritrea

A convert to Catholicism whose husband has Parkinson’s disease has been sentenced to nearly ten years in prison on national security charges

Six Christians from a house church in Guizhou province have been arrested on charges relating to children’s ministry

A Christian convert serving a two-year sentence in Evin Prison is being denied access to the medical care she needs

Pastor Xing Wenxiang, who was released from prison in November, remains under surveillance and is unable to return to ministry

Chang Yuchun, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for printing religious books, is seriously ill in prison