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A defence lawyer representing Pastor Sun Cong and other leaders of Beijing Zion Church who have been detained in Beihai since October 2025 has secured a rare concession from Chinese authorities, resulting in Pastor Sun receiving a Bible. Observers hope this development will potentially establish a legal pathway for other Christia...

Sixty to seventy police and government officials raided a worship service being held by the long-persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church on Sunday 14 June in a hotel in Jiangyou City, about 170  km northeast of Chengdu where the church is based.

Church members including several families had arrived at the hot...

On 3 June a Federal High Court in the capital Abuja convicted four defendants on terrorism-related charges in connection with a deadly attack on St Francis Catholic Church in Owo in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state on 5 June 2022 and sentenced them to death. At least forty-one people were killed and over one hundred were injured in ...

On 19 May the Egyptian government issued an executive order legalising 191 more churches and affiliated service buildings, the 30th batch to be approved. It brings the total number of churches and buildings granted legal status to 3,804 since the committee created to oversee the legalisation of unlicenced church buildings began i...

On 2 June, Iranian Christian converts and asylum-seekers Sam Khosravi and Maryam Falahi attended an interview with Turkish immigration officials during which questions were raised about whether Sam and Maryam have legal custody over their adopted daughter Lydia (8).

The couple adopted Lydia from an orphanage in ...