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NIGERIA: Four convicted over 2022 Pentecost Sunday church attack

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

Coptic scholar and YouTuber Augustinos Samaan was sentenced for defending his Christian faith online

Christian convert Amir-Ali Minaei has been released from Evin Prison after two years in prison for his religious activities

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