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IRAN: Christians call for prayer as protests continue

“We are praying and hoping that, by God’s grace, this battle will be the last battle and Iran will become a free country”

Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church is the latest church network to be targeted by the authorities

Two brothers arrested at a Christmas celebration four years ago have been summoned to prison to begin serving four-year sentences

Christian convert Nayereh Arjaneh began serving a ten-year prison sentence on 23 December

Police have carried out a huge crackdown on a network of house churches in Yayang town in Zhejiang province

The Nigerian government did not say if any ransom had been paid nor who had abducted the schoolchildren

Li Shanshan, wife of Pastor Li Jie of Linfen Covenant House Church, has written a letter protesting his mistreatment in prison

Growing concerns following a huge rise in the number of kidnappings across northern Nigeria

Ten weeks after the Zion Church raids, families of the 18 detainees are struggling to cope

153 children and twelve staff members remain in captivity

Five Christians have been given prison sentences totalling over fifty years

House church leader Sheela Devi, who was jailed for “fraudulent conversion” and released on bail, has spoken about her experience

Police in Rajasthan have registered a case against two pastors under new anti-conversion laws

Three Christian converts including an Afghan refugee have begun serving two-year prison sentences on national security charges

253 children (239 nursery and primary pupils and 14 secondary students) and twelve staff members remain in captivity.

18 pastors and church staff who were detained in raids on the Zion Church network in October have been placed under official arrest

Pastor Zhang Shaojie has been released from prison at the end of his twelve-year sentence

Three leaders from Xi’an Church of Abundance have been re-arrested while still awaiting the verdict of their trial

Deacon Jang has been released from prison in North Korea after serving eleven years of his 15-year sentence

Pastor Xing Wenxiang has been released from prison after a two-year reduction in her twelve-year sentence