CIC Persecution News Headlines
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PERSECUTION NEWS HEADLINES - for the week ending June 21, 2025
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Cuba: Please pray for Pastor Luis Guillermo Borjas and Pastor Roxana Rojas and their son Kevin Our prayers today are for two Cuban pastors and their son, Kevin. |
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Change leads to challenge in Tunisia Following Jesus can sometimes be costly in Tunisia. For example, Ahlem Arfaoui’s faith put her at odds with her family. |
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Nicaragua’s Prisons a Horror for Christian Political Prisoners Amid Widespread Crackdown on Churches Nicaragua’s prison system has become a living nightmare for Christian political prisoners and anyone who dares speak out against the Sandinista National Liberation Front (SNLF) and the Nicaraguan government. |
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Somali Mother Faces Death For Accepting Christ A mother of three children in Somalia says she struggles to survive as Muslim relatives have driven her from their home and threaten to kill her for abandoning Islam and turning to faith in Christ |
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4 key points to guide your prayers for Iranians during the current war The Israel-Iran war brings deep uncertainty, but one thing is clear: Iran needs strategic prayer. |
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RUSSIA: "Missionary activity" prosecutions January 2024 to April 2025 - list In the 2024 calendar year and the first four months of 2025, there were at |
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Kidnapped Christian Might Be Killed In Nigeria; Prayers Urged A Nigerian Christian farmer and evangelist fears Muslim kidnappers have killed his Christian neighbor after he was abducted in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, late Friday. |
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Mother in Somalia Loses Husband, Home for Accepting Christ Former Muslim showed Jesus Film to relatives. |
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Bullied 8-Year-Old Christian Boy Dies after Assault in Indonesia Ruptured appendix is official cause of death. |
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USCIRF Reiterates Call for CPC Designation for Nigeria Weekend Attack on Catholic Mission Exacerbates the Religious Freedom Crisis in Africa’s Largest Country |
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Iran and Israel in conflict, but one Church in both Israel and Iran’s open exchange of fire has entered its fifth day. |
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unfoldingWord equips Bible translators in Iran with tools, technology, and training Translating Scripture is serious business, especially in Iran. |
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Wounding the Church: the strategic persecution of Christian women Mothers, wives, and daughters are often the quiet targets of religiously motivated violence aimed at weakening Christian communities from within. |
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Indonesian Christians Fear War Over Islands An Indonesian house church organizer hopes a territorial dispute over four small islands in western Indonesia will not lead to war. |
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RUSSIA: Prosecutions for unlawful "missionary activity" – 2024 to 2025 Individuals and religious organisations continue to be brought to court |
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What it costs to be a Christian Uyghur in China After the deportation of missionaries from Xinjiang, China, Christian Uyghurs were left to face their persecutors alone. |
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100 Massacred In Nigeria’s Benue State, Amnesty Says (Worthy News In-Depth) Nigeria’s government was under pressure Sunday to end massacres in the country’s central Benue state after at least 100 people, many believed to be Christians, were reportedly killed there over the weekend. |
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Israel: Evangelist Graham: ‘Pray for Peace in Jerusalem’ As Fighting Escalates U.S. Evangelist Franklin Graham urged Christians on Saturday to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” after Iran fired a barrage of missiles towards Israel that killed several and injured scores of Israelis. |
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Nigeria: Christians Report Kidnappings In Abuja; Call For Prayers Christian farmer and evangelist Paul Jongas tells Worthy News that his Christian neighbor has been kidnapped in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, and that he, too, fears for his life. |
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Christian Evangelist Killed In Ethiopia Police in Ethiopia still searched Thursday for a suspect in the killing of a Christian evangelist, who was murdered for “sharing the Good News of the Gospel” with others in his mainly Muslim community, Christians told Worthy News. |
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Blasphemy Laws Misused to Seize Religious Minorities’ Property in Pakistan: HRW Vulnerable communities displaced. |
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Cuban Pastors Face Prison For Mentioning God Two Assemblies of God pastors in Cuba, Luis Guillermo Borjas and his wife, Roxana Rojas, faced a tense Sunday after their reported detention for mentioning God at their son’s military trial. |
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Eight Christians Killed, Farmland Destroyed in Fresh Fulani Attacks in Nigeria Fulani militias launched coordinated attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Plateau State on May 14, killing eight people–mostly children and the elderly–and destroying over 740 acres of farmland. |
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Herdsmen Slaughter 42 Christians in Taraba State, Nigeria Three communities were attacked on Saturday. |
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Muslim in Pakistan Gets Custody of Kidnapped Christian Girl Judge ignores evident coercion behind victim’s statement of conversion. |
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