🇱🇰 Six police officers arrested after allegedly beating Catholic priest Fr. Milan Priyadarshana in Gampaha, Sri Lanka, while he was returning from mass in clerical clothing. The priest was chased on his motorcycle by the police unit, attacked and severely beaten. He is now

🇲🇻 In the Maldives, Islam is the state religion, and citizens cannot follow any other faith. Converting to Christianity can bring harassment, fines, and death. Non-Maldivians may worship privately. But now new 2025 Media Laws punish any post or broadcast seen as “threatening

🇬🇧 County Lines gangs are grooming vulnerable children across the UK: Luring them with gifts, friendship and “protection”, then trapping them in debt and sending them miles from home to sell drugs. The Orphan, a new short film by Christian filmmaker Leo Powell and partly funded

🇩🇪🇦🇹Germany and Austria just affirmed what the UK still hasn’t: peaceful prayer is a right, not a crime. Courts struck down “buffer zones” and bans on prayer vigils near abortion facilities, ruling that freedom of assembly, expression, and religion don’t disappear in “sensitive”

🇮🇷Christian lawyer Attieh Fard, born in Iran, reports that injured protesters are too afraid to go to hospitals for fear of being targeted by the regime. More than 30,000 demonstrators have reportedly been killed, though officials claim 3,000.

🇳🇬 In Kaduna, Nigeria churches: Gunmen abducted 177 worshippers from three churches last month. Police say 80 have returned home, but the Christian Association of Nigeria says 166 are still missing. Kidnappings for ransom continue to terrorize northern Nigeria.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian police and military are intensifying raids on Christian worship in occupied eastern Ukraine. Armed officers stormed Sunday services, recorded attendees, and questioned Pastor Vladimir Rytikov for refusing to register under Russian law. Similar raids hit churches

🇲🇲A new report from the Burma Research Institute details severe persecution of Christians in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup. Over 340 churches destroyed, 149 Christians killed, 218 imprisoned, and communities displaced across Chin, Kachin, Karenni, Karen states, and

🇳🇬 Tragic news from Kano, Nigeria: 13-year-old Christian orphan David Tarfa has died while in state custody, nearly 10 months after a court-ordered agreement to return him to his caregivers. David was among 27 children taken from the Christian Du Merci Orphanage on Christmas

🇺🇸 Reparation Mass at Holy Innocents Catholic School, Long Beach, after vandals smashed statues, desecrated the tabernacle, and destroyed sacred images. Bishop Marc Trudeau led a Eucharistic procession. Community prays for the perpetrators.

🇬🇧40% of hate COMPLAINTS involve Muslims, ministers say. Christian and Sikh leaders warn a govt working group’s plan to redefine “Islamophobia” as “anti-Muslim hostility” is so broad it could chill free speech and silence criticism of Islam.

🇬🇧 The abortion debate is back in the House of Lords. Christian peers are pushing amendments to: - Scrap “pills by post”: the system allowing abortion pills to be prescribed for home use, introduced "temporarily" during the Covid-19 pandemic. - Reinstate face-to-face