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Several impoverished Christians have died across Pakistan in recent days amid what advocates describe as a pattern of violence, discrimination and hardship potentially threatening the Christian community throughout the predominantly Muslim nation, Christian sources told Worthy News.

Iranian Christians are facing deaths, arrests and mounting restrictions on Christian broadcasting, even as an underground ministry reports thousands of people turning to Jesus Christ.

The United States is on track to finish fiscal year 2026 without admitting a single Christian refugee from the 50 countries where believers face the world’s most severe persecution, marking a dramatic reversal from just two years ago, according to a new report from Open Doors US and World Relief.

A senior British lawmaker is warning that Christians increasingly face a double standard under Britain’s justice system, accusing authorities of tolerating extremist Islamist preaching while Christian ministers and believers face scrutiny over traditional biblical beliefs.

At least 21 civilians, believed to be Christians, died when suspected Islamists attacked two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said.

A Christian family in Pakistan’s city of Rawalpindi lives in fear after their young daughter, Saba, was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist while other attackers abducted and tortured her teenage brother, according to sources familiar with the case.

A Russian strike on an ammunition depot near Kyiv triggered massive destruction that also wiped out a Christian humanitarian aid warehouse serving thousands of war-affected Ukrainians, while dozens of people were killed in the surrounding area, aid workers and officials said.

Lothar Velten, one of Germany’s best-known evangelists and a leading figure in the nation’s tent mission movement, has died after some six decades of preaching the Gospel in Germany and Austria, his ministry confirmed. He was 82.

Members of a Christian family of nine say they fear for their lives after being freed through court intervention from a brick kiln in eastern Pakistan following 11 years of alleged forced labor, beatings, threats and severely reduced wages.

A young Christian brick-kiln worker in Pakistan’s Punjab province says he was beaten, chained, and threatened after protesting low wages and working conditions, while his wife and children were also assaulted in a case raising fresh concerns about bonded labor among impoverished Christians.

Iranian authorities have killed or imprisoned dozens of Christians amid a widening crackdown on the country’s underground church, according to Iran Alive Ministries, a Texas-based Christian ministry with a network inside Iran.

A new report suggests a surprising shift may be underway in Canada, where younger adults are showing stronger signs of religious interest than many expected after decades of national secular decline.

Christians and rights advocates in Pakistan have expressed mounting concern over reported deadly attacks, intimidation, abductions of girls and alleged forced conversions involving the nation’s Christian minority, with several incidents emerging across the Muslim-majority country.

The 41-year-old man who died after a large wooden sign fell at a major Christian festival in England was identified Sunday as Robert Guanco, a pastor at a church in the coastal town of Eastbourne.

Christians in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have held a memorial service for a veteran Baptist pastor and an associate reportedly killed by government troops amid an ongoing military crackdown, Worthy News learned Sunday.