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Nonprofit persecution watchdog group Open Doors US released its annual World Watch List on Wednesday, which ranks the top 50 countries where Christian persecution and discrimination are at a record high.
Brad and Amy Hagan, lead pastors of Thrive Church in New South Wales, have been suspended for six months by the Australian Christian Churches following an investigation by the largest Pentecostal organization in Australia into complaints about the couple’s leadership.
The Nicaraguan government released dozens of people from prison over the weekend, a move that took place shortly after the U.S. embassy in Managua publicly advocated for the freedom of political prisoners.
The United States launched another series of coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Saturday in response to the ambush killing of two American soldiers and a U.S. citizen civilian interpreter in Palmyra last month.
Iran is facing its most widespread unrest in over a decade, as U.S. President Donald Trump said the country was “in big trouble” and accused its leaders of losing control of key cities. Trump warned that if protesters were killed, the United States would respond with force.
Two Christians in Iran sentenced to prison for their faith were locked up on Dec. 16 and 20, and a Christian woman was summoned to begin serving her five-year prison term two days before Christmas, according to an advocacy group dedicated promotion of religious freedom in Iran.
Around three dozen people and three minors have been killed after more than a week of protests in Iran sparked by the country’s economic crisis, according to reports from human rights groups.
A watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China is pleading for international attention as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities appear poised to destroy a prominent church in Wenzhou, a port and industrial city in China's Zhejiang province.
A 54-year-old Protestant pastor was shot and killed by armed men on New Year’s Eve in northern Colombia as he gathered with his family. The killing took place in the Santa Elena neighborhood of Fundación Municipality in the Magdalena Department.
