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  Ezra Jin describes harsh prison conditions in first comments since release from China

  Days after reuniting with his family for the first time in eight years on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Chinese house church Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri has vowed not to rest until he sees the release of eight other church members still behind bars in China, where they are confined to cramped cells and must sleep on floor mats in blistering heat.

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  Judge sentences Muslim to prison for Jaranwala, Pakistan attacks

  A court in Pakistan on Monday (July 13) sentenced the first person to be convicted for anti-Christian violence in Jaranwala in August 2023, handing him 10 years in prison while acquitting 13 others due to flawed investigations, sources said.

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  Pakistan urged to protect religious minority girls from forced conversion/marriage

  Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and rights advocates on Tuesday (July 14) urged Pakistan to strengthen protections underage Christian and Hindu girls and other religious minorities, frequently subject to forcible conversion to Islam and marriage to those who kidnap them.

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  Court acquits three men convicted of killing Christian couple in Pakistan

  Pakistan’s Supreme Court last week overturned the death sentences of the remaining three men convicted in the 2014 lynching of a Christian couple burned alive after being falsely accused of blasphemy, sources said.

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  The poor and minorities suffer most from corruption in Pakistan, report says

  Entrenched corruption across Pakistan’s criminal justice system disproportionately affects poor and marginalized communities, particularly Christians prosecuted under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, according to a new report.

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  Majority of blasphemy cases in Pakistan ‘fabricated,’ officials say

  Officials in Pakistan last week reported to a parliamentary committee that a majority of 333 blasphemy cases registered in the past five years in four provinces were fabricated, according to media reports.

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  South Korean church leaders ramp up preparations for 2027 national evangelization assembly

  Leaders from across South Korea's Protestant churches convened a strategy meeting to advance preparations for a major evangelization gathering planned for 2027, with organizers describing the event as a potential turning point for the Korean church.

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