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  US & Canada Latin America Church & Missions Society & Culture Arts & Media

  Panel of Latino media leaders reveal insights how to share message of faith and purpose across 'every screen'

  By Javier Bolaños

  In an increasingly fragmented media landscape—where audiences divide their attention between traditional television, social media, and countless streaming platforms—a panel of renowned communicators gathered at the Media Music Marketing Summit in Miami, FL, to discuss a crucial challenge: how to unite the community and deliver an impactful message “from Prime Time to the Timeline and back.”

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  Africa Society & Culture

  Madagascar church leaders call for peace and dialogue amid ongoing Gen-Z protests against government

  By Ken Kagicha

  Following weeks of youth-led protests in Madagascar that have led to the death of at least 22 people and destruction of property worth millions of dollars, church leaders in the southwestern Island nation off the coast of the Indian Ocean have called for "peace, protection of life and the common good."

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  US & Canada Middle East Society & Culture

  Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal brokered by Trump

  By CDI Staff

  Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement to exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, a long-awaited breakthrough that U.S. President Donald Trump said could mark the first step toward ending the two-year war in Gaza.

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  Middle East Society & Culture Church & Missions

  ‘True security lies in protecting all Syrians,’ Patriarch Aphrem tells human rights leaders following first post-Assad elections

  By CDI Staff

  Leaders of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) met Monday (Oct. 6) with His Eminence Ignatius Aphrem II, Syriac-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, in Damascus to discuss the challenges facing Syria’s Christian communities following the country’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime.

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  Europe Society & Culture Church & Missions

  Spanish public broadcaster apologizes for program labeling evangelical churches ‘dangerous’

  By CDI Staff

  Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE has apologized for a program that described the growth of evangelical churches as “worrying” and portrayed them as “dangerous,” promising to handle religious issues with “the utmost care” following a wave of complaints from evangelical organizations and viewers.

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  Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture

  Nigeria security agents prevent clergy from officiating funeral service in Jos, arrest Christian journalists covering altercation

  By Obed Minchakpu

  Nigeria’s security agents on Saturday prevented the president of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) from entering the sanctuary during a funeral service at the church’s headquarters in Jos, Plateau State, and arrested two Christian female journalists who were covering the altercation at the event.