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Religious freedom takes a dive across Asia
It was all bad news for Asian nations in the annual United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report, with four more countries — India, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia — sliding down into the two lowest, most persecuting categories, joining Myanmar, China and North Korea. The report certainly backs up the consistent themes of increasing persecution across the region that have been covered by journalists for UCA News and its sister publication, La Croix International....Read More
Nigeria’s Christians are being silently slaughtered
Ninety-one million Christians live in Nigeria. They make up around 46 per cent of the total population of 196 million. There are a similar number of Muslims in Nigeria – over 90 million. In Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, the majority of Christians live in the south of the country, and their religious freedom is respected. But in the north of Nigeria and the ‘Middle Belt’, where Christians are in the minority, they face horrific levels of persecution at the hands of Islamic extremists.....Read More
Christian Leaders Face New Challenges Amid India’s COVID-19 Lockdown
“My rations will run out in three or four days,” Pastor Radhe Kishan, a church planter from India, recently told International Christian Concern (ICC). Like many church planters across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic and the national lockdown that followed has presented Pastor Kishan and his family with new and severe challenges. Pastor Kishan, age 30, is one of the hundreds of beneficiaries of the Bibles and Bikes for India Initiative ICC launched in 2018......Read More
Christian minorities ‘back of queue’ in coronavirus aid – some rations six times smaller
Open Doors reports that in one area of Nigeria Christian families say they are receiving food rations which are six times smaller than their non-Christian neighbours. This comes as Christians across the developing world are targeted by conspiracy theorists who blame them for the virus. The charity is helping deliver food to people in Uzbekistan who have been denied aid because of their religion, and in India there are fears in churches that the promise of support will be used to bribe people to abandon their faith.......Read More
USCIRF Designates Algeria as Religious Freedom Violator for First Time Ever
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) added Algeria to its 2020 annual report on the world’s worst religious freedom violators. “The [Algerian] government,” USCIRF reports, “systematically cracked down on the Evangelical Protestant community.” This is the first time in USCIRF’s history that Algeria has been included in the report, which comes at a time when the Algerian Church is facing a severe wave of persecution........Read More
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Please continue to pray for our afflicted brothers and sisters around the world. We hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to your continued partnership.
Thank you for all you do!
Sincerely, your sister in Christ,
Dede Laugesen
Executive Director
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