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PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES - for two weeks ending December 24, 2022 

This Week At ChinaAid: A special prayer this Christmas season for the persecuted Please keep our persecuted brothers and sisters in your prayers this holiday season as persecution often increases during this time. The CCP believes many across the world will pay less attention to their abuses during the holidays.
Anti-Christian Riots in India Surge Across 20 Villages  Hundreds of Christians in Chhattisgarh forced to flee into forests
USCIRF Releases Report on Religion Law Amendments in Kazakhstan The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report
USCIRF Releases New Report on Cuba The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: One Berdyansk pastor and two priests in Russian detention Armed Russian soldiers seized Pastor Serhiy Karpenko of Berdyansk's Vefil Church on 12 December.
USCIRF News Digest - December 21, 2022
New Indonesia penal code prompts concern Indonesia has approved sweeping changes to the penal code.
Iraq: Teacher who fled Islam faces children of ISIS militants A young man in Iraq who had left Islam to follow Christ recently began teaching school in an area where children of Islamic State (ISIS) fighters were living.
Tunisian church struggles to retain new believers Tunisia holds a small Church with little more than 500 people, with believers from Muslim backgrounds.
RUSSIA: Refusing to "carry out orders aimed at destruction and utter defeat of living people" A Leningrad Region court upheld Pavel Mushumansky's request to have his mobilisation order cancelled.
Herdsmen, Other Terrorists Slaughter 46 Christians in Nigeria Killings in southern Kaduna state continue unchecked.
Pro-life speech under fire in the U.K. The ‘buffer zone’ law currently being debated in Parliament is an assault on Britons’ fundamental freedoms. It should scare pro-lifers the world over.
SEAsia: Pastor martyred for sharing the Gospel Unknown attackers recently tortured a pastor to death in Southeast Asia.
Official Bans Christmas Celebrations in District in Indonesia Action comes despite lack of national-level restrictions.
Christian Genocide Warning Signs in Artsakh On Monday December 12th, Azerbaijan started a blockade on the roads connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to all outside resources.
Why are Syrian Refugees Leaving Turkey? Over half a million refugees have left Turkey, and there are mixed thoughts on the mass exodus.
Iranian Strikes Show that the People Will Not be Intimidated by the Regime Iranian civilians and protestors are in the middle of a three day nationwide general strike after the government refused to comment on a claim made by a senior official about the abolition of the morality police.
Christian Woman Who Survived an ADF Attack Dies at Age 87 “Dorothy Mbasa, a heroine, has fallen.”
Church Building in Sudan Burned Down Muslim extremist member of the military suspected.
CHRISTMAS 2022: WHO IS HE IN YONDER STALL?  - the cornerstone, the stumbling block, and the stone of crushing whose kingdom will grow to fill the whole earth.
Muslim Extremists Lure, Attack Christian Teacher and Son Assailants in Uganda upset with their conversion from Islam.
Please pray for Protestant Christians in Latin America The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5)
Chinese Christians Compelled to Honor Deceased CCP Leader Jiang Zemin Three-Self Church honors him as “a great Marxist we love and miss” and says he did “a good job in religious work.” In fact, he increased surveillance and persecuted believers.
China: ERCC Elder Qin Defu Released From Prison! Praise the Lord! Early Rain Covenant Church Elder Qin Defu was released from prison on December 9th after a four-year sentence.
USCIRF Releases New Report on Burma The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report
USCIRF News Digest - December 14, 2022
USCIRF criticizes Turkey blasphemy law The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has criticized Turkey’s blasphemy law
USCIRF ‘Outraged’ by U.S. State Department  After the U.S. Department of State announced its recent designations for Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) last Friday, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) responded with ‘outrage’ by the State Department’s omission of Nigeria and India from the list of designations.
Turkey Discriminates Against the Greek Orthodox Church On 11/15/2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared that Turkey had violated the human rights of the Greek Orthodox Taksiarhis church after denying them the ability to register for property.
Laws in Algeria Restrict Mission Work Officials in Algeria have made it increasingly difficult for Missionaries to evangelize or challenge the Islamic faith in any capacity.

Church Organizations Oppose Government Energy Drilling Church organizations in East Nusa Tenggara province are protesting a government company for using their names to pass a geothermal drilling project that is strongly opposed by area residents.
Burma (Myanmar) and Indonesia: December Shocks Junta officials have arrested and are preparing to prosecute one of Burma’s most significant and influential religious leaders and human rights advocates.
USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Tolerance Promotion and Religious Freedom The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report
China moves away from zero-COVID China announced changes to its pandemic policy, moving away from zero-COVID measures.
Protestor execution marks shift in Iran Tensions remain high in Iran following last week’s protestor execution.

 

 

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