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  Two Christian women assaulted in Pakistan

  Police in Pakistan slow to prosecute a Muslim who attacked two Christian women with an axe and attempted to rape one of them are weakening the case against him, sources said.

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  Regulator refuses to ban chaplain in UK for speaking against LGBTQ+

  A criminal records regulator in England has refused to ban a chaplain accused under terrorism laws of speaking against LGBTQ+ identity politics at a high school, but his appeal of his dismissal is still pending.

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  Brownback, others support action against slaughters in Nigeria

  Unchecked massacres and kidnappings in Nigeria, many of them targeting Christians, require more than the U.S. State Department designating it as a “Country of Particular Concern,” key leaders said at the International Religious Freedom Summit.

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  Gospel event in Egypt demonstrates opportunities amid challenges of the Church

  On November 3, 2023, more than ten thousand people gathered for the event and heard Dr. Michael Youssef of Leading the Way ministries openly share the gospel. The meeting also included a simultaneous gathering of thousands of children.

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  Christians tortured, forced to recite Islamic creed in Pakistan

  An Islamist cleric presided over the forced conversion of two Christians in Sialkot District, Pakistan after they were tortured into reciting the Islamic conversion creed, sources said.

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  US House Speaker Mike Johnson warns of global threats to religious freedom, calls on Biden to protect Uyghurs

  The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson urged the Biden administration to take stronger action against the Chinese Communist Party as the ruling government's treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority group continues to invite allegations of human rights and religious freedom violations. 

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  Russian religious persecution takes aim at Ukrainian identity, Summit told

  Russian soldiers and occupation officials have committed at least 76 acts of religious persecution in Ukraine since the invasion of February 2022 as part of an attempt to destroy national identity, official and church sources said at the International Religious Freedom Summit.

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