A prominent attorney petitioned Nigeria’s president to declare a military emergency as Fulani herdsmen killed at least 86 people in predominantly Christian areas of Benue state in the past two weeks, including 46 on Sunday (June 1), sources said.
Hong Kong businessman and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to a horrendous twenty years in jail on Monday February 9th, 2026. For political reasons he is unlikely to die in prison. When released, we will do well to listen to what he has to say about his experience of sweet joy and love in a most unlikely place.
What we have seen recently within Iran is a symptom of a deep desire for change, yet change is already happening. The Spirit of God is moving and Iranians are responding. 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques have closed, reportedly as a result of Christian influence. As change continues, may Iranians coming to Christ become a blessing to all nations.
NGO professionals can find themselves traveling from conference to conference, only to encounter the same people and organizations time after time, listen to the same first-year university level talks, and have the same conversations that sound good but effectively go nowhere. Questioning the conference industrial complex.
Here is an abridged introduction to a missions forecast from the WEA's Mission Commission warning against toxic utilitarianism as a threat to global stability. It leads to a narrow-minded view of national wellbeing and is a multi-faceted problem for those seeking to fulfill the purposes of God internationally. A related decline in philanthropy, trauma of tribalism, lack of theological education, and impact of migration present challenges to the future of World Christianity and missions that will
For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights situation in North Korea. The meeting took place on May 20 (local time) at the U.N. Headquarters in New York and was convened by the president of the 79th U.N. General Assembly. It was based on a resolution on North Korean human rights adopted in December 2023. This marks the first occasion the U.N.’s primary deliberative body has addressed the issue in a high-level format
Pakistan’s top Islamic body on Tuesday (May 27) rejected a bill that seeks to criminalize child marriages in Islamabad, describing it as “un-Islamic.”
More than a dozen Christian graves at three cemeteries in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia were vandalized from May 16 to 19, according to published reports.
Muslim parents in southern Somalia were overjoyed to see their missing 20-year-old son, a drug addict, return home free of substance abuse this month. When they discovered that his transformation sprang from putting his faith in Christ, however, they drove him from their home.
Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Saturday (May 24) killed 42 people in three predominantly Christian communities in Taraba state, northeast Nigeria, sources said.
A judge in Pakistan on May 16 handed custody of a Catholic girl to the Muslim who kidnapped and forcibly married her despite evidence that she was coerced into stating she converted to Islam, her father said.
The Ukrainian Bible Society (UBS) reports that 1.6 million Bibles have been distributed in the country since Russia’s invasion, averaging nearly 1,000 copies per day. In 2026, demand is also rising for trauma support initiatives.
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