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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 lane in Punjab leading to a small church, a single crimson scarf dropped on a low wall.

Every Sunday the Men Came to Watch the Christian Girls Walk to Church. On August 16 a Boy of Seventeen Asked Them Why.

A Christian boy in Sheikhupura asked a group of men why they came every Sunday to harass the girls walking to church. They came back with iron rods. Two groups, working separately, say what happened next.

They Buried Four of the Forty Seven on Sunday. The UN Has Now Said Exactly Where the Other Forty Three Died.

They Buried Four of the Forty Seven on Sunday. The UN Has Now Said Exactly Where the Other Forty Three Died.

The UN human rights office has now reconstructed the Kenscoff massacre: thirteen killed fleeing, twenty two executed in a church courtyard, twelve behind the church.

Engraving of a plain room with a table, a candle and a circle of empty stools

He Got Clean, Then Spent Years Helping Other People Get Clean. Kunming Will Try Him on September 16 for Holding the Meetings.

Three members of a thirty person house church in Kunming have been held since April 12. A court has now set the pretrial conference for September 2 and the trial for September 16.

An engraving of an emptied meeting hall with rows of folding chairs and one small lamp burning by an open door

They Charged Him Under a Law That Did Not Exist Yet. It Takes Effect on Friday.

Pune police charged Pankaj Devnoor under the Maharashtra anti-conversion law on August 7. The law does not take effect until August 28.

An engraving of a closed iron prison door, an empty bench with a small cloth bundle left on it, and a single crimson lamp burning in a niche in the stone wall.

He Kept the Islamic State Out of His Town. Syria's New Government Has Held Him Eighteen Months Without a Charge.

Suleiman Khalil twice kept his Syriac Orthodox town out of jihadist hands. Since February 8, 2025 the new Syrian government has held him with no charge, no lawyer and no evidence anyone outside the prison has seen.

He Was Arrested in Borneo. Two Days Later He Was on a Plane to the Only Province in Indonesia That Runs on Islamic Law.

He Was Arrested in Borneo. Two Days Later He Was on a Plane to the Only Province in Indonesia That Runs on Islamic Law.

He was buying supplies for his church when they came. The charge was not the one everybody assumes.

Seven People Were Taken in Wenzhou on August 5. The Only Record That It Happened Is a Prayer Account.

Seven People Were Taken in Wenzhou on August 5. The Only Record That It Happened Is a Prayer Account.

Seventeen days. No charge, no location, no lawyer. Two watchdogs, one prayer account, and nothing at all from the state.