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  Sep 28, 2026

  Muslims use permit technicality to stall church construction in Indonesia

  Muslims who have long opposed a proposed church building in East Java Province are using an administrative error as a pretext to halt its approved construction.

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  Sep 18, 2026

  Algerian police seize Bibles as 12 Christians arrested for holding non-Muslim service

  Special forces police in Algeria raided a worship service at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, arresting all 12 Christians present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized, non-Muslim religious service.

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  Aug 28, 2026

  Indonesia sentences Christian pastor 2 years in prison under Islamic blasphemy law

  A Christian pastor has been sentenced to prison for two years for violating Indonesia’s law against blasphemy and hate speech in a case that has drawn scrutiny over the speed of his arrest and trial.

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  Aug 17, 2026

  Kidnapped Sudanese pastors, family released amid surge in attacks on Christians

  Two church leaders abducted in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have been released. 

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  Aug 5, 2026

  Algerian Christians forced underground as Protestant churches remain sealed

  Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all Evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile.

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  Jul 25, 2026

  Pastor killed in Uganda after Christian-Muslim debate; imam among prime suspects

  A 25-year-old pastor at New Restoration Church of Christ in Uganda's Butebo District was killed hours after participating in a public Christian-Muslim debate.

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  Jul 23, 2026

  Pastors imprisoned on false 'conversion' charges after neighbor uninvited to kid's party lobs allegations

  Six pastors and another Christian in India have begun serving their five-year prison sentences under Madhya Pradesh's "Freedom of Religion" law, commonly known as the state's anti-conversion law, two years after they were falsely accused at a child's birthday party,

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  Jul 21, 2026

  Christian convert poisoned to death in Somaliland after conversion

  Muslim relatives of a father of five in Somaliland who recently became a Christian poisoned him to death this month for converting, sources said.

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  Jun 2, 2026

  ‘Sacrilege' law threatens Christians in India's Punjab state

  Thanks to misuse of a law against “outraging religious feelings,” a Christian pastor in Punjab state, India still cannot return home. His church is shut.

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  May 9, 2026

  Christian man's hands chopped off by Muslim relatives: 'That's what Sharia instructs us to do'

  Relatives of a man in eastern Uganda chopped off his hands in a brutal attack after he converted from Islam to Christianity.