Christian laborer in Pakistan shot for requesting wages
Muslim farm owners in Pakistan on March 23 beat a Christian laborer with iron rods and shot him in the leg for requesting his wages.
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World Christianity insists we listen to majority world theology
In a lecture series at China Evangelical Seminary back in April, Alexander Chow, Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh, established the need for Christians worldwide to listen to theologians from the Majority World. The future of the Global Church depends on us having ears to hear.
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Practicing your faith when your culture no longer tolerates it
The anti-Christian realities in India provide ample evidence that a culture can quickly turn against freedom of religion. Sadly, in India, some Christian leaders claim that if there is one place you can go to remain unaware of what is happening, it is in established churches on a Sunday morning! Thankfully the Holy Spirit is not so constrained and Christians continue to multiply in the midst of heightening persecution.
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Four million Christians are facing death and persecution in Myanmar
In Myanmar, the Church is often the strongest surviving institution in an isolated community, destroying it weakens not only worship but the community’s capacity to resist the oppressive control of Myanmar's military junta. Christians are often thought of as collateral damage in Myanmar’s civil war, but they are also being targeted.
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Viral West Papua documentary forces Indonesia to confront what it tried to hide
A documentary about indigenous land dispossession and military violence in West Papua has been watched more than 13.6 million times on YouTube within days, after Indonesian authorities failed to suppress organized screenings in cities throughout the country. More than 107,000 people in April 2026 have been displaced and most of them Christian.
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Christian group brings Bible translation tools to 35 language groups in Indonesia, Southeast Asia
An international organization that pioneered a new method to accelerate Bible translation and put God’s Word in the hands of more people worldwide is providing Christian groups in Indonesia and Southeast Asia with the necessary tools to translate the Bible into 35 indigenous languages.
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Unsafe conditions kill Christian sewer workers in Pakistan
Rukhsana Asif, a Christian mother of two children in Faisalabad, Pakistan, was devastated when she learned that her husband and his cousin had died from poisonous gas while cleaning a clogged sewer manhole.
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Hope for Christian 22 years on death row for ‘blasphemy’ in Pakistan
In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic body to advise on whether content that has left a Catholic on death row for 22 years was in fact blasphemous, sources said.
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Muslims in Indonesia end church’s meetings in home
Muslim residents objecting to house-church worship in western Indonesia on Sunday (March 17) compelled the pastor to discontinue using her home for services, sources said.
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Muslim 'suitor' kidnaps 13-year-old Christian in Pakistan
Two months after a Muslim told a Christian in Pakistan he could not stop him from taking the Christian’s 13-year-old daughter for marriage to his 28-year-old Muslim son, the girl was kidnapped on March 13, her father said.
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Christian family in India beaten, separated from children
A Christian couple in central India have not seen their two young children for more than a month after an attack by followers of traditional tribal religion drove them from their village for refusing to recant their faith.
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The danger of trusting a chatbot with the right opinions
AI systems are designed to affirm your pre-existing bias, whether that bias is liberal or conservative, and therein lies the danger. What we actually need are instruments that help us find out when we are wrong. That used to be called education, and was essential to discipleship. We need to be wary of technology tuned to our tribal biases.
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