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  Veteran missions leader Daniel Bianchi to lead Arise Latin America

  Daniel Bianchi, who has served as the Lausanne Movement's regional director for Latin America since 2017, has been appointed director of Arise Latin America, carrying into the region a youth missions movement that held its largest congress to date in Manila, Philippines, in July.

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  U.S. lawmakers told of Pakistan’s religious rights violations

  Religious freedom advocates have urged U.S. lawmakers to push Pakistan to end the abduction, forced religious conversion and marriage of minority girls, warning that weak law enforcement and judicial failures leave Christian and other religious minority children vulnerable to abuse.

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  Michigan church discloses misconduct allegations against founding pastor Seth Kim

  Harvest Mission Community Church of Ann Arbor has disclosed allegations of sexual misconduct against its founding pastor, Seth Sung Kim, involving two women under his spiritual care. The church said it believes the allegations are true and that Kim has permanently disqualified himself from pastoral ministry.

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  Forced conversions, blasphemy law afflict religious minorities in Pakistan

  The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday (Oct. 15) asserted that religious minorities in Pakistan, including Christians, continue to face forced faith conversions and marriages, blasphemy accusations and mob violence despite recent legislation intended to protect their rights.

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  Loneliness weighs on Christians serving refugees in South Asia, consultation finds

  Christian leaders and practitioners who work with refugees and other displaced people in South Asia say the work leaves many of them isolated and exposed to personal risk, according to a recent report by Philoi Global.

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  Christian’s death sentence upheld under blasphemy law in Pakistan

  Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (Oct. 7) upheld the death sentence of a Christian convicted under blasphemy laws while acquitting his brother, with rights advocates questioning the contrasting outcomes after years of legal proceedings, sources said.

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  India locks down capital, detains Gen Z protest leaders over voter roll dispute

  Delhi Police detained the founder and two senior leaders of a Gen Z protest movement aboard their plane Saturday, Oct. 10, as authorities shut dozens of metro stations, canceled more than 250 trains and deployed tens of thousands of officers to keep protesters away from the capital’s designated protest ground.

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