
Russian court imprisons pastor for statement on Ukraine war
A Russian court last week jailed a church pastor for four years after he spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine in a sermon.

A Russian court last week jailed a church pastor for four years after he spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine in a sermon.
In the British Crown's "The Sovereign Grant" annual report, King Charles is revealed as "Supreme Governor of the Church of England... protecting the space for Faith (sic) within the multi-faith nation". This reveals a subtle shift in the British monarch's mandate. Not just protecting but potentially validating all faiths, which is biblically untenable.
The anti-Christian realities in India provide ample evidence that a culture can quickly turn against freedom of religion. Sadly, in India, some Christian leaders claim that if there is one place you can go to remain unaware of what is happening, it is in established churches on a Sunday morning! Thankfully the Holy Spirit is not so constrained and Christians continue to multiply in the midst of heightening persecution.
In Myanmar, the Church is often the strongest surviving institution in an isolated community, destroying it weakens not only worship but the community’s capacity to resist the oppressive control of Myanmar's military junta. Christians are often thought of as collateral damage in Myanmar’s civil war, but they are also being targeted.
A documentary about indigenous land dispossession and military violence in West Papua has been watched more than 13.6 million times on YouTube within days, after Indonesian authorities failed to suppress organized screenings in cities throughout the country. More than 107,000 people in April 2026 have been displaced and most of them Christian.

A former Muslim in eastern Uganda who put his faith in Christ in March was lured to his death on Aug. 19, sources said.

Christians in Türkiye suffered an upsurge in hate crimes in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a human rights report.

Police in North Khartoum, Sudan on Saturday (Aug. 23) disrupted a funeral prayer meeting to arrest five South Sudanese Christians, church leaders said.

A prominent Islamic scholar who has opposed misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws against Christians and other minorities was arrested on Monday night (Aug. 25) and later charged under a section of the statutes calling for the death penalty.

Uttarakhand state last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment.

A Christian girl rescued from a Muslim in Pakistan who abducted her said he forcibly converted her, sexually assaulted her as part of a sham Islamic marriage and forced her into prostitution.