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

He Baptized 175 People at the River. He Did Not Live to See Monday End.

He Baptized 175 People at the River. He Did Not Live to See Monday End.

On the last Sunday of June, Father Crépin Martial Monga stood at the Mbomou River in Zémio, in the eastern Central African Republic, and baptized 175 people. Most of them, 160, were members of his own parish who had fled their homes because of the fighting. He walked the newly

The Last Family Has Left Iran's Oldest Protestant Church. The Bulldozers May Be Next.

The Last Family Has Left Iran's Oldest Protestant Church. The Bulldozers May Be Next.

St. Peter's Evangelical Church has stood in central Tehran since 1876. American Presbyterian missionaries built it on land granted by a Qajar king. For a century and a half, Armenian and Assyrian Christians worshiped there, ran two schools there, raised children there. In July, the Islamic Republic moved

The Sunday They Took the Congregation: 163 Worshippers Marched Into the Bush

The Sunday They Took the Congregation: 163 Worshippers Marched Into the Bush

The bandits waited until the service was underway. On Sunday, January 18, in a rural Christian community in the Kajuru area of Kaduna State, armed men arrived in large numbers, blocked the church entrance, and forced the congregation out at gunpoint. "It has been confirmed that 172 people were

Nine UN Experts Put Nigeria on Notice for the Taking of Christian Girls

Nine UN Experts Put Nigeria on Notice for the Taking of Christian Girls

In Bauchi State there is a girl who was 13 when the men took her. She was converted to Islam by force and married by force. Her case is now written into a formal United Nations communication to the government of Nigeria. She is not alone in the file. Girls

Thirteen Believers Will Be Killed for Their Faith Today. That Is the Average.

Thirteen Believers Will Be Killed for Their Faith Today. That Is the Average.

Open Doors counted the dead again this year. The 2026 World Watch List records 4,849 Christians killed for faith-related reasons in a single reporting year. Spread across the calendar, that is roughly 13 believers a day. Not in one war. Not in one country. Every day, on average,

They Came During the Sermon: China Raids Early Rain Again

They Came During the Sermon: China Raids Early Rain Again

Early Rain Covenant Church has not worshiped in peace since 2018. On Sunday, June 14, its members gathered in a rented hotel ballroom in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province, about 100 miles northeast of Chengdu. Families. Children. A morning service like ten thousand others across China. At about 11 a.m.