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  Another church leader abducted in Sudan

  Following attacks on clergy in Sudan’s South Kordofan state last month, another church leader in Heiban town was abducted last week, according to sources.

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  Prepare before the El Niño floods, not during, Compassion International tells African churches

  Compassion International is urging African Churches to prepare adequately for what weather experts say will be one of the strongest El Niño events expected to take place from October 2026. Faith Magadi, the organization’s Senior Manager for Disaster Response, told Christian Daily International that churches need to build relationships with the police, local administrators, and emergency agencies before the onset of El Niño and not in the middle of one.

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  Oppressed Christians in Algeria go underground

  Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said.

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  Nigeria governor supports mass wedding for 300 Muslim and Christian couples to help overcome financial burdens

  Three hundred couples in Nigeria's Kebbi State were married this week in a government-sponsored mass wedding that included both Muslim and Christian couples.

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  Funeral services held for 30 Christians massacred in Nigeria

  Pastors and members of various churches attended a Catholic funeral service on Saturday (Aug. 1) for 27 Christians massacred by suspected Fulani terrorists in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.

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  US church mourns mother of four who died during mission trip to Kenya

  A church in Virginia is mourning the death of a mother of four who traveled to Kenya on a Christian mission trip to serve orphaned children before falling critically ill with a severe Salmonella infection.

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  'As long as we have blood, we have something to give': African mission leader calls Arise Asia to the joy of perseverance

  When Joshua Bogunjoko stepped onto the stage at the Arise Asia 2026 Congress in Manila on the morning of July 30, he opened with a question about how people perceive Africa: "When you hear the word Africa," he asked the participants, "what comes to your mind first?"

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