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  Singaporean visual scribe captures spirit of Arise Leadership Summit through illustrative witness

  Throughout the four-day Arise Leadership Summit in Indonesia, participants were met not only with words, worship, and cultural performances—but also with a visual tapestry capturing the event’s flow in real time. Behind this artwork stood Wendy, a professional visual scribe from Singapore, who brought her distinct listening and illustration skills to bear in service of the global Church.

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  Dr. Prabhu Singh emphasizes missional collaboration based on early Church model at Arise Leadership Summit

  The third day of the Arise Leadership Summit 2025 opened with a message from Dr. Prabhu Singh, Founder and CEO of the Issachar Global Education Network (IGEN), who urged participants to prioritize collaboration in global mission work, drawing on lessons from the early Church in Antioch as recorded in Acts 11.

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  Fewer countries have Christian majorities, Pew report finds

  The number of countries with Christian majorities declined between 2010 and 2020, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, highlighting a notable shift in global religious affiliation. As of 2020, Christians remained the majority in 120 out of 201 countries and territories analyzed—down from 124 in 2010. That means Christian-majority nations accounted for 60% of all countries surveyed, compared to 62% a decade earlier.

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  IJM calls for more preventative action from Australian government on UN trafficking awareness day

  On the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (July 30), International Justice Mission (IJM) called on the Australian government to demonstrate stronger political leadership in addressing modern slavery and transnational human trafficking, which continue to escalate across Southeast Asia and within Australian borders.

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  Amnesty International report reveals discrimination, stigmatization faced by Christian and other sanitary workers in Pakistan

  Sanitation workers in Pakistan—many of whom are Christians from marginalized caste backgrounds—face systemic discrimination, hazardous conditions, and caste-based exclusion in public employment, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

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  Arise Leadership Summit panel urges churches to walk with Gen Z as co-laborers, not projects

  At a time when churches around the world are grappling with declining youth engagement, a diverse group of Christian leaders at the Arise Leadership Summit 2025 made a compelling case for rethinking how the Church engages with Generation Z—today’s most digitally connected and spiritually seeking demographic.

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  Muslim employer forcibly converts Christian boy in Pakistan

  The Muslim employer of a Christian boy forcibly converted him to Islam and is keeping him in his illegal custody, the family’s attorney said.

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