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  Six Naga hostages, including two pastors, killed as India's Manipur crisis widens

  Six Naga men taken hostage in India's northeastern state of Manipur, two of them pastors, were found dead on June 10, their remains reportedly mutilated. More than a week later, their bodies have still not been handed over to their families.

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  The Send Philippines draws 13,000 to dual-venue gathering aimed at long-term youth mobilization

  More than 13,000 young people gathered across two Manila-area venues on Philippine Independence Day on June 12 for The Send Philippines, a Christian youth mobilization event that organizers describe as the beginning of a sustained, multi-church initiative rather than a one-time gathering.

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  Court blocks govt action against historic Christian college hostel in Pakistan

  The management of Pakistan's only church-run chartered university secured temporary relief on June 18 (Thursday) after the Lahore High Court (LHC) restrained the Punjab provincial government from taking further action regarding Ewing Hall, a historic hostel building belonging to the Forman Christian College University (FCCU).

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  Missing Christian girl in Pakistan feared to be trafficked

  Christian relatives of a 13-year-old girl in Pakistan allegedly abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to an older Muslim man fear she could be trafficked, as they continue efforts to recover her.

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  [Book review] The Great Debate: A Nineteenth-Century Defense of Christianity by a Renowned Muslim Convert

  This academic contribution to the dialogue between Christians and Muslims draws on the South Asian ‘Great Debate’ of 1854 in Agra and later additions to the unfinished Debate by a South Asian convert to Christ – providing a fascinating historical study and a resource for contemporary Christian debate with Muslims.

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  Asian seminary journal calls for 'integrative approach' to forming whole-person Christian leaders

  A peer-reviewed journal published by the Asia Theological Association has released a volume focused entirely on how theological institutions across Asia are working to form students not just academically but spiritually, relationally, and personally — a challenge that leaders in the region say is growing more urgent.

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  Pakistan's only church-run chartered university challenges govt repossession of historic hostel

  Widespread criticism from Christian leaders, rights advocates, heritage conservationists, and alumni of Pakistan’s only church-run chartered university appears to have prompted the Punjab government to publicly rule out the demolition of a century-old university hostel at the center of a growing dispute over ownership, heritage preservation, and minority rights.

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