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The Watchman

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

Engraved village scene at dusk, house Watchman art

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

They Took Fingerprints, Blood, and Voices. Six Believers Have Not Come Home.

They Took Fingerprints, Blood, and Voices. Six Believers Have Not Come Home.

They came on a Saturday. On July 11, police in Yueyang, a city on the Yangtze in China's Hunan Province, raided multiple unregistered house churches. Believers were taken in for questioning. Most were released within a day or two. Six were not. ChinaAid, the Texas-based watchdog founded

They took the pastor and his sons by night. The next day they killed another shepherd.

They took the pastor and his sons by night. The next day they killed another shepherd.

They came to the pastor's house in Heiban after the fighting had already emptied the streets. On the night of July 23, armed men from a breakaway faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North took Rev. Yaqob Ibrahim Tia of the Sudanese Church of Christ

The guards stopped their prayers. Saudi Arabia has started the executions

The guards stopped their prayers. Saudi Arabia has started the executions

Five Ethiopian Christians were executed on nonlethal drug charges after trials of minutes. At least 58 more wait in one Saudi prison.

The Drone Watched the Monastery for Three Hours. Then It Fired.

The Drone Watched the Monastery for Three Hours. Then It Fired.

The sisters were preparing grain. It was the morning of Wednesday, July 22, at the Arsema monastery complex in Ethiopia's South Wollo zone, near the town of Mekane Selam in the Amhara region. The rainy season was coming, and the community was laying up stores to last through

They Were Attacked at Prayer. Then Egypt Arrested Them.

They Were Attacked at Prayer. Then Egypt Arrested Them.

The stones came first. Then the handcuffs. On the evening of July 8, in the village of El-Tal El-Qibliya in Egypt's Minya Province, dozens of residents surrounded the building where the village's Coptic Christians pray. They threw stones at the church doors. They threw

Stopped at the Checkpoint: A Pastor's Family Is Taken on the Damasak Road

Stopped at the Checkpoint: A Pastor's Family Is Taken on the Damasak Road

On Saturday, July 18, a commercial vehicle left Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state, heading northwest toward the town of Damasak near the Niger border. Among the passengers were the wife of Pastor Moses Guguma and their three children. She had just been discharged from a hospital