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The Watchman

The persecuted global church. Verified reporting on believers under fire, with names, dates, and sources.

Engraving of an empty village road on the Jos Plateau at dusk, doors shut, a bare wooden pole laid across the road as a barrier, one crimson cloth tied at its centre.

Barkin Ladi Was Put Under a Dusk Curfew After a Pastor Was Killed. The Gunmen Kept Coming Anyway.

A week ago a pastor died on the road to church at Dorowa Babuje. Plateau State ordered Barkin Ladi indoors from six to six, and the killing went on: a 22-year-old in Rakwok, three at Rakok, a police superintendent on the Gagshi road. How many died in all depends on who is counting.

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Colombo Jailed Fifteen for the Easter Bombings. The Church Says Whoever Ordered Them Is Not in the Dock.

Three judges in Colombo convicted fifteen men on Tuesday for helping the Easter Sunday 2019 bombers, who killed 279 people in three churches and three hotels. The Archdiocese welcomed the verdict and called it one part of the case. The former spy chief in custody has not been tried.

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Xi Freed One Pastor in July After Trump Asked. He Landed at Andrews Wednesday With Eight Still Inside.

Trump met Xi on the tarmac at Andrews on Wednesday. Ezra Jin walked out of detention in July because Trump asked for him in May. A federal commission has put eight more names in front of the President, and the full slate of talks begins Thursday morning.

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He Was Walking to Church at Dorowa Babuje on Sunday Morning. The Night Before, Five Labourers Died on the Road to Gana-Ropp. By Noon the Women and Children Were Leaving the Village, and Nobody in Uniform Was Answering the Phone.

Nine died in Barkin Ladi and Riyom between Saturday night and Sunday morning: five labourers on the road to Gana-Ropp, a pastor on his way to church at Dorowa Babuje. At noon the gunfire had not stopped and the women and children were walking out. By evening, a red alert.

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Six Intelligence Agents Spent a Sunday Inside St. Peter's Compound So the Families Would Get Used to Them. On July 10 the UN Asked Tehran Eight Questions About It. Sixty Days Later the Answer Is a Guard at the Gate.

Two UN rapporteurs wrote to Tehran on July 10 about St. Peter's: twenty families given two weeks to leave, pastors threatened with arrest, six intelligence agents on site so residents would get used to them. Iran let sixty days pass. The letter is public, and the church is shut and guarded.

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Eighty Prisoners of War Broke Out of a Resistance Jail in Tedim on Sunday Night. On Monday Afternoon the Assistant Pastor of Lamzang Was Shot Three Times at the Kapte Bridge. His Convention's Letter Quoted Matthew 25:21 and Did Not Say How He Died.

Dal Thawn Tuang, assistant pastor of Lamzang Baptist Church in Chin State, was shot three times at the Kapte bridge on September 14. The institute that confirmed his death says the military killed him. The Burmese press says escaped prisoners of war did.

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They Waited for the Bus Door to Open at Dungus Junction. Nine Died on the Road to Jos, Four More Are Named in Mangu, and the Conductor, Four Days Into the Job, Hid While They Emptied His Pockets.

Nine died when gunmen fired on a bus at Dungus Junction, Kuru, on Sunday night. Four more are named in Mangu. The conductor, four days into the job, hid while they took his phone.