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Wife of American missionary held hostage in Niger pleads with US to honor promise of help

The wife of Jeff Woodke, an American missionary who has been held hostage in Niger for five years, on Wednesday appealed to the US government to honor its promise to keep all options on the table in seeking her husband’s release, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Making her appeal at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Els Woodke also called on the international church for help to finance the rescue effort.

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Nigeria: Christian journalist imprisoned for reporting on 38 murdered believers

Christian journalist Luka Binniya has been arrested and jailed in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, after he reported on the killing of 38 believers by Fulani Islamic extremists, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported Thursday.

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Cameroon: Boko Haram murders four civilians in area known for attacks on Christians

Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday murdered at least four civilians in the far north of Cameroon, a region where Christians are frequently attacked by Islamic militants who want to rid the nation of “infidels,” International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Cameroon ranks 42 on the US Open Doors Watch List 2021 of top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

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Nigeria: Islamic militants kill one, abduct 100 others from church; “please remain in fervent prayer”

Amid Nigeria’s intensifying extremist violence against Christians, Islamic militants carried out yet another atrocity on October 31, murdering a congregant and abducting over 100 others from a church in Kaduna state, the Catholic Herald reports. Islamists have murdered over 15,000 Christians in Nigeria since 2015: rights groups are warning of genocide.

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China’s government is indoctrinating preschoolers against Christianity

The Chinese communist government has begun indoctrinating kindergarten-age children against what it calls “illegal religion,” a term which specifically includes the Church of Almighty God movement, the largest Christian movement in China, religious rights publication Bitter Winter reports.

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Seventeen Egyptian Coptic Christians disappear in Libya; fears of repeat ISIS beheadings of 2015

Seventeen Egyptian Coptic Christians went missing in Libya on September 30, and fears are rising that Islamic extremists may have kidnapped them in a repeat of the ISIS abductions and beheadings of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya in 2015, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

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Christians continue to be slaughtered in Nigeria “killing field,” Please Pray

Christians in Nigeria continue to be slaughtered with impunity and, on Sunday night, suspected Fulani militants murdered more than 30 people in the Madamai and Abun villages of Kaduna state on Sunday night, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

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UK prosecution service drops charges against street preacher

The UK’s prosecution service has dropped charges brought against a street preacher who refused to stop his outdoor ministry during England’s first COVID-19 lockdown last year, Christian Concern (CC) reports. Christian street lay minister Mike Overd was due to appear in court this month after police issued him with a fine for preaching and offering prayer and Bibles in Somerset, southern England on April 2, 2020.

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