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  Oceania Church & Missions Family & Children Society & Culture

  Abuse survivor denounces New Zealand’s redress plan as betrayal of justice: 'once again, we're forgotten'

  By Chris Eyte

  A New Zealand survivor of church abuse has condemned the government’s decision to reject a new independent redress system—recommended by a Royal Commission that uncovered decades of systemic abuse—as a betrayal of victims still waiting for justice.

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  Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture

  ‘To get the Africa God wants, we need the African Church God wants,’ says President of Association of Evangelicals in Africa

  By CDI Staff

  Opening the 13th General Assembly of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA), Bishop Dr. Goodwill Shana delivered a far-reaching and impassioned keynote address calling the African Church to rediscover its prophetic identity and take full responsibility for the continent’s future.

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  Europe Family & Children Church & Missions Society & Culture Education

  Churches ‘picking up the pieces’ amid Northern Ireland’s public service crisis

  By Chris Eyte

  Northern Ireland is facing a deepening crisis in public services, with chronic underfunding affecting health, education and policing—prompting evangelical leaders to call for prayer and action as churches increasingly step in to fill the gaps.

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  US & Canada Church & Missions Society & Culture

  Bible engagement rises among younger men, surprising researchers at American Bible Society

  By Timothy Goropevsek

  After years of steady decline, Bible engagement in the United States has ticked upward for the first time in four years, driven largely by a surprising demographic: younger men.

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  Global Church & Missions

  WEA issues official statement in response to whistleblower report

  By CDI Staff

  The World Evangelical Alliance issued a statement Saturday, May 17, on its website in response to a whistleblower report recently published by the Christian Council of Korea, WEA’s former national member body.

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  US & Canada Africa Migration Society & Culture Church & Missions

  Refugee flight landed in US from South Africa; White South African Christian leaders say racial narrative is 'distorted'

  By CDI Staff

  A chartered jet carrying 59 white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday, marking the first group admitted under a newly created refugee pathway launched by the Trump administration. The arrivals, many of them Afrikaners, were granted entry under claims of “race-based persecution” in South Africa — a move that has triggered significant debate both internationally and within South Africa’s religious community.