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The Prison Has a Priest. The 106 Christians Inside Have Not Had a Mass in Months.

The document is polite. That is the first thing to understand about it. A Cairo lawyer named Said Fayez addressed a public appeal to officials of Egypt’s National Security Agency. It does not protest anyone’s innocence. It does not denounce the state. It asks for one thing, a

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The New Ten Commandments Lawsuit Runs on Laws Christians Wrote. That Is the Whole Point.

Three mothers from the Houston area walked into a Harris County courthouse at the end of July and asked a judge to take the Ten Commandments off their children’s classroom walls before school starts in mid August. One of them is raising her children without religion. One is raising

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The Law Arrives Quietly This Morning. The Sisters Are Already at the Bedsides.

Laws do not arrive the way we imagine. There is no bell, no procession. At midnight, somewhere in an Albany server, a date field ticked over, and New York became a state where a terminally ill person can ask a physician for the drugs to end their life. That is

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He Won the Debate. The Road Home Was Nine Miles Long.

Bernard Mulongo was 25. He pastored the New Restoration Church of Christ in Butebo District, in eastern Uganda. He had a wife and two children, ages 4 and 7. On Saturday, July 18, he traveled to Mbale for an open air debate between Christians and Muslims. He spoke well. Pastors

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The Evidence Was a Birthday Party. The Sentence Is Five Years of Hard Labor.

On April 27, 2024, in a village in Dindori district in central India, a man named Suday Singh Maravi threw a birthday party for his daughter. She was turning five. Friends and relatives came, and among the guests were six pastors and another Christian man. By evening a crowd of

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Before They Come for the Pastor, They Practice on His Children

There is a kind of courage we almost never talk about in church, and it belongs to children. Not the courage of the missionary or the martyr. The courage of a nine year old who bows his head over lunch at a school where the teacher has already told him

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They Read the Names Over the Graves in Naridon. All Twenty-Eight.

On Saturday, thousands of people stood in Naridon village, in southern Kaduna, while twenty seven coffins were lowered into the ground. The attack came the previous Sunday, July 26, shortly before midnight. Armed men moved through the village for nearly two hours. Homes burned. By morning about thirty people were