CIC Persecution News Headlines
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PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES - for the week ending June 24, 2023
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Persecuted Christians await fate in Libya limbo Six believers in Libya could soon face the death penalty for sharing their faith. | |
This Week: Famed human rights lawyer sentenced Sadly, Lawyer Chang Weiping was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, with an expected release date of July 2024 based on time served. | |
Chinese lay pastors graduate special seminary program Despite times of intense pressure, the church in China has continued to grow and thrive. | |
Muslims Block Worship at Two Churches in Indonesia Home fellowship told to obtain permit. | |
BELARUS: Bulldozers destroy Minsk church On 20 June, the regime brought in bulldozers to start the destruction of | |
Afghanistan turns into terrorism hotbed under Taliban rule Afghanistan is turning into a hotbed of Islamic terrorism under Taliban rule. | |
Isolation and abuse plague child marriages in Iran Since 2021 the number of child marriages in Iran has steadily increased. | |
Uganda: Christian Students Slaughtered in Attack on High School Islamist terrorists from DRC suspected in terrorist assault in Uganda. | |
Church Attack in Uganda Leaves One Dead Suspected Islamic extremists stormed Katikara Anglican Church in Kakumiro District, western Uganda, hacking a church member to death and leaving several others injured on Tuesday. | |
Hundreds of Houses of Worship Destroyed in Manipur, India The far eastern Indian state of Manipur does not often feature in international headlines. | |
Libyan Court Sentences 23 ISIS Militants to Death for Involvement in 2015 Insurgency A Libyan court sentenced 23 ISIS-Libya militants to death for their involvement in the 2015 insurgency centered on the city of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast in north-central Libya. | |
Catholic Priest Shot Dead in Nigeria A Libyan court sentenced 23 ISIS-Libya militants to death for their involvement in the 2015 insurgency centered on the city of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast in north-central Libya. | |
Christian Church Barred from Worship in Rented Space in Indonesia Roughly 100 Muslims protested at a local shopping mall to prevent Christians from using a room they had rented as a place of worship at the beginning of May. | |
Uganda: New Christians Hospitalized after Relatives Beat Them Family in Uganda attacks two brothers for leaving Islam. | |
Catholic Priest Slain in Southwest Nigeria Gunmen shoot him in the back. | |
USCIRF Urges President Biden to Raise Religious Freedom Concerns During India State Visit The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges President Joseph R. Biden to address concerning issues of religious freedom and other related human rights in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming state visit. | |
New Christians Hospitalized after Relatives Beat Them
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At Least 45 Students Killed by ADF in Uganda Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group, killed at least 45 students in an attack in Mpondwe, Kasese District, Uganda, on Friday. | |
Pakistani missionary not deterred by brutal attack About a month ago, we told you about a missionary in Pakistan whose arms, wrists, and hands were broken in a brutal attack for distributing Bibles. | |
Chinese spy tech could make Iran’s Islamic regime even more dangerous Western sanctions and diplomacy lose effect as Iran strengthens ties with China and Saudi Arabia. | |
“I think we’re seeing the collapse of ..." A senior cleric made waves in Iran earlier this month by saying Islam was weak. | |
India: Manipur Conflict Leaves Scores Killed and Churches Destroyed Conflict in the Indian state of Manipur has left 98 people dead, 35,000 displaced, and 100 churches destroyed since violence broke out in early May, according to the UK-based news outlet Church Times. | |
DRC Jihadists Kill 12 People including Women and Children Twelve people including women and children were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, another attack perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terror group. | |
Lack of Aid Reaching Myanmar After Cyclone A UN official in Myanmar warned that not enough aid was reaching distressed areas in Myanmar after a cyclone hit the western state of Rakhine in May. | |
Nigerian Troops Continue to Battle the Islamic State The Nigerian military killed 11 Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an offensive between May 31 and June 4, according to local officials. | |
Fulani Terrorists Kill 46 Christians in Benue State, Nigeria Villages are attacked uncontested for two days. | |
North Korea: 'All for Jesus. even in death.' Outside Sunchon – a city around 45km due north of Pyongyang in North Korea’s South Pyongan province – lies an inconspicuous farmhouse. Every Sunday morning at 5am, five Christians (all relatives) have met at that Tongam village farmhouse for a secret time of prayer and worship. | |
Sudan: Hell in Khartoum, Genocide in Darfur, El Obeid Beseiged, Nuba Mts Bombed On 15 April 2023 conflict erupted in Khartoum between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF, led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan) and its former partner, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (‘Hemedti’). |
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