CIC Persecution News Headlines
News of persecution, human rights violations, and other articles of interest.
If one member suffers, all the members suffer …
1 Corinthians 12:26a
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PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES - for the week ending May 23, 2026
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Please pray for Benito Guevara Arcos in Mexico, kidnapped by criminal group Seven weeks have passed, and the whereabouts of Benito Guevara Arcos are still unknown. |
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Pakistan Fails to Make Arrests in Violence against Christians Little progress since March 31 court order. |
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Christian Missionary Missing In Mexico After Armed Men Objected To Bible Outreach A 79-year-old Protestant missionary remains missing in southern Mexico more than six weeks after armed men reportedly abducted him while he was preaching and distributing Bibles in Guerrero State, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide. |
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A rare letter from a North Korean Christian Recently, an Open Doors field worker helping with our North Korean believers shared a letter with us containing a very special message. |
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India: Please pray for Manipur On Wednesday, May 13, I woke up to a flood of messages on my phone from India. |
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Pakistan tops Global Terrorism Index as attacks intensify Two bombing attacks last week in northwest Pakistan targeted a market and a military outpost. |
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Sudanese refugees find Gospel hope amid civil war trauma Sudan’s army advanced in Blue Nile state this week, yet the civil war is far from over. |
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War allies and gospel workers vie for the heart of Iranians May 20, 2026, is day 82 of the United States-Israel war on Iran, and day 43 of the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran. |
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Esther offers ancient hope in modern Iran As unrest persists in Iran, International Media Ministries (IMM) offers Gospel hope. |
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Christian broadcasters offer hope in the midst of Haiti’s instability On May 18, Haitians celebrated the creation of their flag over 200 years ago during the Haitian Revolution. |
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Jailed Chinese Pastor Becomes Symbol of Beijing’s Crackdown on Christianity A Wall Street Journal exclusive is drawing renewed attention to the imprisonment of Pastor Ezra Jin, the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church, whose arrest has become a flashpoint in China’s intensifying campaign against unregistered Christian congregations. |
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Nigerian and United States forces kill top ISIS leader in Nigeria A joint operation by Nigerian and United States forces over the weekend of May 16–17 killed a top ISIS leader based in Nigeria. |
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Hajj during Middle East tensions: What’s happening and how to pray The ongoing war in the Middle East is affecting this year’s Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. |
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Evangelist Franklin Graham said Sunday that “God did a miracle” in Belarus after he held what organizers described as the largest evangelical Christian gathering in the country’s modern history and met authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. |
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Suspected Islamist Militants Attack Nigerian School; Dozens Of Students Missing Dozens of students remained missing Friday after suspected Islamist militants attacked a school in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged northeastern state of Borno, officials and residents said. |
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Married Muslim in Pakistan Said to Forcibly Convert, Marry Christian Girl Wives cooperating with investigation. |
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Who will shape China’s next generation? The recent arrest of six Christians in southwest China highlights growing religious freedom concerns in the country, and the question of who will shape the hearts of China’s next generation? |
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Foiled assassination plot in Syria points to a need for Christ Earlier this month, Syrian authorities said they had arrested a Hezbollah-linked cell accused of plotting to assassinate governmental officials. |
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Pakistan’s hardline Islamist party and movement, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), has been accused of involvement in a massive “blasphemy business” scheme targeting Christians and other Pakistanis charged under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, despite being banned by the government. |
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Christians and rights campaigners in Pakistan have demanded “a transparent investigation” into the death of a Christian brick kiln worker allegedly poisoned by a Muslim resident in the country’s east, while another Christian laborer was killed in a separate case. |
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