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  Christian convert from Sudan expelled from home in Uganda

  Life seemed to be looking better for a refugee from Sudan who had fled to Ethiopia and South Sudan, put his faith in Christ, and then found a job at his uncle’s business in Uganda.

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  Kidnapped Anglican priest dies in captivity in Nigeria

  Amid a rash of mass kidnappings in Nigeria, an Anglican priest in Nigeria abducted along with his wife and daughter has died in captivity, leaders of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion announced on Wednesday (Nov. 26).

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  Humanitarian crisis continues to loom despite DRC Peace Framework

  Despite the signing of a peace framework between the DRC Government and M23 rebels, the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious, with lives at stake and thousands still displaced from their homes. 

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  Sudanese Christian Family Threatened with Death in Uganda

  A Sudanese Christian family in Uganda is living in fear after Muslim extremists from Sudan and Somalia threatened to kill them.

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  Malawi faith leaders challenge High Court abortion ruling as ‘worrying precedent’

  Malawi’s major faith bodies are challenging a High Court ruling that allowed a 14-year-old rape survivor to access an abortion, warning the decision sets a “worrying precedent” for the country’s abortion laws. The Malawi Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Malawi Council of Churches, the Evangelical Association of Malawi and the Muslim Association of Malawi said the Oct. 28 ruling not only overturns long-standing legal limits on abortion but also risks reshaping national policy without broad pub

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  US congressional panel hears pleas amid growing violence in Nigeria

  With the U.S. administration threatening to take military action and cut aid over violence against Christians in Nigeria, researchers and rights advocates on Thursday (Nov. 20) provided a U.S. congressional panel with insights on ways forward amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

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  Refugee camps in South Sudan model interreligious harmony in the shadow of a civil war

  Over 1.2 million refugees escaping the devastating war in Sudan have crossed over to neighbouring South Sudan according to the UN’s High Commission for Refugees. 823,557 of them are returning to a country they fled between two major conflicts creating a unique and complex status of refugee returnees.

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