Bill to outlaw child marriages advances in Pakistan
A bill to criminalize child marriages in Punjab Province, Pakistan made significant headway on Wednesday (June 5) when the Standing Committee of the Cabinet on Law approved the legislation.
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Imprisoned freedom advocate Jimmy Lai rewarded with sweet joy and love
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.
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Iran: a complex context where God is growing the Church
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.
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The unhelpful vortex that is the conference industrial complex
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.
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Rising political utilitarianism presents fresh challenges to global missions
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
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Hardline Muslims beat Christians unconscious in Uganda
Two evangelists are still receiving hospital treatment two weeks after hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda beat them unconscious for proclaiming Christ, sources said.
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Suspects unprosecuted in death by torture of Christian in Pakistan
With suspects in a homicide case pressuring the victim’s relatives to make false statements, police in Pakistan are declining to arrest them in the case of a Catholic tortured to death by his Muslim employers, sources said.
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Court in Pakistan forces ‘Islam’ designation on Christian’s ID card
A court in Pakistan denied a Christian victim of fake conversion to change the religious designation of Islam and the Muslim name that his Muslim employers fraudulently registered on his National Identity Card, sources said.
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Christian sanitation worker tortured in Pakistan
Muslims upset with a Christian sanitation worker in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday (May 25) beat him and left him chained in blistering heat for hours, sources said.
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Christian convert in Somalia wounded, loses family
A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said.
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Christian wounded in attack in Pakistan in stable condition
A Christian in Sargodha, Pakistan who was critically wounded in a mob attack on Saturday (May 25) due to false allegations of blasphemy is in stable condition, sources said.
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'North Americans must see themselves as partners with the global Church', Urbana director says
For nearly eight decades, Urbana has stood as one of the most influential missions gatherings in North American evangelicalism, inspiring generations of young Christians to consider their role in taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. But as Christianity’s center of gravity continues shifting toward the Global South, the triennial event grappled with the question: what does mission look like in a world where leadership is no longer primarily Western?
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