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'''The greatest good news''' is the [[Gospel]] of [[Jesus Christ]]: that Christ died for sins, was buried and rose again, offering [[forgiveness]], reconciliation with [[God]] and eternal life to all who trust in him. This page reports contemporary developments involving Christians and Christian ministries around the world.
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<div style="font-size:80%;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#5d756c;">Featured story · Colombia · 17 August 2026</div>
<div style="font-size:145%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;margin:.25em 0;">Colombian evangelicals organize earthquake relief</div>

Following the earthquake that struck [[Colombia]] on 10 August, the Evangelical Confederation of Colombia activated a coordinated response to assist churches, families and affected communities. The effort includes emergency support, local church participation and longer-term recovery.

The [[World Evangelical Alliance]] invited Christians worldwide to pray for those affected, churches serving on the ground and relief workers. The response illustrates how local congregations can combine practical assistance, pastoral care and Christian witness during a disaster.

<div style="margin-top:.75em;">'''[https://worldea.org/columbia-evangelicals-launches-earthquake-relief-effort-urges-solidarity/ Read the World Evangelical Alliance report]'''</div>

<div style="margin-top:.55em;font-size:92%;">Related: [[Christianity in Colombia]] · [[Disaster relief]] · [[Humanitarian aid]] · [[Christian ministry]]</div>
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<div style="font-size:138%;font-weight:bold;color:#6d521e;margin:.25em 0;">More than 388 million Christians face serious persecution</div>

The 2026 World Watch List estimates that more than 388 million Christians experience high levels of persecution or discrimination because of their faith.

Nigeria, Sudan and Mali received the report's highest violence score. In the World Watch List's fifty highest-ranking countries, approximately 315 million Christians experience very high or extreme persecution.

<div style="margin-top:.75em;">'''[https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/persecution-trends/ Read the Open Doors report]'''</div>
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<div style="font-size:79%;font-weight:bold;color:#8a681e;">NIGER · 17 AUGUST 2026</div>
<div style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;margin:.2em 0;">Missionary Kevin Rideout released after nine months</div>
Missionary pilot Kevin Rideout was reported safe following approximately nine months in captivity. Christian mission organizations welcomed his release and thanked churches that had prayed for him and his family.
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<div style="font-size:79%;font-weight:bold;color:#8a681e;">LEBANON AND SYRIA · 5 AUGUST 2026</div>
<div style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;margin:.2em 0;">Syrian pastor Nihad Hassan released</div>
Pastor Nihad Hassan of the Kurdish Evangelical Church in Beirut was released in Aleppo on 3 August. Religious-freedom advocates and Christian organizations had raised concern about his detention.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://worldea.org/world-evangelical-alliance-welcomes-the-release-of-syrian-pastor-nihad-hassan/ World Evangelical Alliance]</div>
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<div style="font-size:79%;font-weight:bold;color:#8a681e;">ISRAEL · AUGUST 2026</div>
<div style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;margin:.2em 0;">Christians report increasing harassment</div>
Christian clergy and communities in Israel have reported spitting, vandalism and physical assaults. Concerns have been especially pronounced in Jerusalem's Old City, although officials have announced additional measures intended to address anti-Christian incidents.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://apnews.com/article/98c8f0b5aa9cc462f150332c2ef60b45 Associated Press]</div>
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==Christian missions==

Christian mission includes [[evangelism]], [[discipleship]], [[Bible translation]], [[church planting]], theological education, ministries of mercy and Christian witness across cultural and geographic boundaries. Contemporary mission is increasingly multidirectional, with churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America sending missionaries within their own regions and throughout the world.

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<div style="font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Colombia earthquake does not stop translation work</div>
Despite earthquake disruption, church-centered Bible-translation efforts among Colombia's Nukak people are continuing. The effort reflects a growing emphasis on local churches participating directly in translation and Scripture engagement.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 18 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Asian evangelical leaders emphasize discipleship</div>
The Asia Conference on Church and Mission met in Manila in June 2026. Leaders called on Asian churches to make biblical disciple-making central to congregational life and mission rather than treating it as one program among many.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://worldea.org/weas-manila-conference-calls-on-asias-churches-for-prioritizing-discipleship/ World Evangelical Alliance]</div>
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<div style="font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Global mission looks toward 2033</div>
Evangelical networks continue to discuss cooperative efforts connected with the two-thousandth anniversary of Christ's death, resurrection and the Great Commission. Leaders emphasize that numerical goals must remain subordinate to biblical faithfulness, prayer and locally rooted discipleship.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://worldea.org/searching-for-gods-heart-in-our-efforts-towards-2033/ World Evangelical Alliance, 6 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Mission in the Global South</div>
The center of global Christianity continues to move toward Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mission leaders increasingly describe Christian mission as “from everywhere to everywhere,” with leadership, theology and missionary sending no longer concentrated primarily in Europe and North America.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://lausanne.org/ Lausanne Movement]</div>
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'''Explore:''' [[Great Commission]] · [[Missionary]] · [[Evangelism]] · [[Church planting]] · [[Cross-cultural ministry]] · [[Unreached people group]] · [[History of Christian missions]]
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==Persecuted Church==

Christian persecution ranges from social exclusion and employment discrimination to surveillance, forced closure of churches, imprisonment, abduction and lethal violence. Conditions vary greatly among countries and even within the same country. Reports should distinguish persecution specifically related to Christian identity from violence caused primarily by criminality, ethnicity, politics or general instability.

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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">NIGERIA</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Violence remains a major threat to Christian communities</div>
Open Doors recorded Nigeria as the country with the largest number of Christians killed for their faith during its 2026 reporting period. Violence involves complex interactions among militant groups, criminal networks, land disputes, weak governance and religious hostility.

More than fifty Christian and Muslim leaders signed a peace accord in Abuja in August 2026, seeking to reduce extremism and religious conflict.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-faith-leaders-sign-peace-accord-months-after-trump-remarks-2026-08-13/ Reuters]</div>
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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">ERITREA</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Evangelical churches face severe restrictions</div>
Unregistered evangelical, Pentecostal and Baptist churches in Eritrea face raids, detention and restrictions on worship. Believers in unrecognized congregations may be accused of acting as foreign agents, and some have reportedly remained imprisoned for extended periods.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/eritrea/ Open Doors country profile]</div>
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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">MALI</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Churches threatened by extremist violence</div>
Christian communities in parts of Mali face abduction, church destruction and violent intimidation by Islamist militants. Evangelical pastors and converts may be particularly vulnerable in regions where government authority is limited.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/mali/ Open Doors country profile]</div>
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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">BANGLADESH</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Political uncertainty raises concern for minorities</div>
Christian ministries are monitoring political instability and the possible effect of national developments on religious minorities. Local Christians may face social hostility, pressure on converts and vulnerability during periods of political unrest.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 14 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">MALAYSIA</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Legal struggle continues over Pastor Raymond Koh</div>
The family of missing pastor Raymond Koh continues seeking accountability for his disappearance. Court proceedings and government appeals have prolonged the investigation into a case that has become an important religious-freedom concern.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 14 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:81%;font-weight:bold;color:#874242;">CHINA</div>
<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#6f3535;margin:.2em 0;">Independent churches remain under pressure</div>
Chinese Christians continue to report surveillance, detention of pastors, removal of religious materials and pressure on churches to submit to state-controlled structures. Some Chinese believers have urged overseas advocates to listen carefully to local Christians and avoid reducing their suffering to Western political narratives.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/05/chinas-persecuted-christians-skeptical-western-advocates-grace-jin-drexel/ Christianity Today]</div>
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'''Remember those in prison:''' “Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body” (Hebrews 13:3). See [[Christian martyrs]], [[Religious persecution]] and [[International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church]].
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==Bible translation and discipleship==

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<div style="font-size:127%;font-weight:bold;color:#38536a;">Translation becomes more local and diverse</div>
At a gathering in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Bible-translation leaders described a transition from predominantly agency-led printed translation toward locally directed, multimedia approaches. Audio, video, sign-language and oral translation can help communities that do not primarily communicate through printed text.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://wycliffe.net/2026/07/23/bible-translations-future-is-diverse-and-local/ Wycliffe Global Alliance, 23 July 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:127%;font-weight:bold;color:#38536a;">African churches lead translation efforts</div>
African Christian leaders have emphasized that Bible translation is not merely an academic or linguistic project. It should be connected to worship, discipleship, local theology, community transformation and the mission of indigenous churches.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://wycliffe.net/category/news/ Wycliffe Global Alliance]</div>
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<div style="font-size:127%;font-weight:bold;color:#38536a;">Translation education expands to children</div>
The course ''Language and Translation in the Mission of God'', which has mobilized pastors and churches in Latin America and elsewhere, is being adapted for younger learners. Its goal is to show that Scripture translation involves the whole [[Body of Christ]].

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://wycliffe.net/2026/05/13/bible-translation-for-all-ages/ Wycliffe Global Alliance, 13 May 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:127%;font-weight:bold;color:#38536a;">Hundreds of languages still await translation</div>
As of August 2025, Wycliffe reported that 544 of the world's 7,396 living languages remained on the waiting list for Bible translation to begin. The remaining languages represented approximately 36.8 million people.

<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://wycliffe.net/global-scripture-access/ Global Scripture Access statistics]</div>
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'''Related subjects:''' [[Bible]] · [[Bible translation]] · [[Biblical languages]] · [[Biblical literacy]] · [[Oral Bible translation]] · [[Christian education]] · [[Discipleship]]
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==Religious freedom==

===United States court protects worship sites===

On 18 August 2026, a United States federal appeals court upheld a ruling limiting immigration-enforcement actions at eight houses of worship associated with Quaker, Sikh and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship communities. The plaintiffs argued that the threat of enforcement near worship services interfered with religious ministry and discouraged immigrants from attending.

The ruling applied to the plaintiffs rather than creating a universal prohibition on enforcement at all religious sites.

:[https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-blocks-immigration-enforcement-actions-under-trump-near-some-2026-08-18/ Reuters report]

===India considers stricter rules for foreign-funded organizations===

Proposed changes to India's Foreign Contribution Regulation Act would expand government power over the assets of organizations whose foreign-funding registrations are cancelled or not renewed. Christian institutions, humanitarian organizations and other civil-society groups have expressed concern that the law could be used to restrict legitimate charitable or religious activity.

The Indian government argues that stronger controls are necessary for transparency and protection from improper foreign influence.

:[https://www.ft.com/content/c7ac41f1-d755-4024-9101-e206dfbcddd7 Financial Times report]

===Christians in the Holy Land===

Christians constitute a small minority in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Church leaders have expressed concern about harassment, vandalism, regional warfare, economic decline and emigration. Christian ministries continue to operate schools, hospitals, churches, pilgrimage sites and humanitarian programs despite these pressures.

:[https://apnews.com/article/98c8f0b5aa9cc462f150332c2ef60b45 Associated Press report]

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'''Religious freedom''' protects the right to adopt, practice, change, discuss or decline a religion without coercion. Christians should defend this freedom not only for fellow Christians but also for people of other faiths and no religious faith. See [[Freedom of religion]], [[Freedom of conscience]] and [[Church and state]].
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==Humanitarian ministry==

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<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Indonesia earthquake response</div>
Following deadly earthquakes in Indonesia, Christian organizations and local believers began assisting affected and geographically scattered communities. Disaster response can include food, shelter, medical support, trauma care and rebuilding.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 18 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Venezuelan churches assist displaced families</div>
Churches in Venezuela are working to ensure that people displaced by earthquakes are not forgotten after the initial emergency response. Local congregations can provide continuing relationships and assistance after international attention declines.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 17 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Children in Ukraine receive Christian devotionals</div>
Christian ministries are distributing age-appropriate devotional materials to children affected by the continuing war in Ukraine. Ministries report that Scripture resources are being used alongside personal care and local church relationships.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 14 August 2026]</div>
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<div style="font-size:124%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Haitian churches minister amid gang violence</div>
Haiti's continuing political uncertainty, gang control and delayed elections affect churches, schools and relief ministries. Christian workers continue serving communities facing insecurity, displacement, food shortages and limited public services.
<div style="margin-top:.55em;">[https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News, 13 August 2026]</div>
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==Topics of interest to Protestant Christianity==

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-top:.8em;"
! style="background:#214f43;color:#fff;width:24%;" | Subject
! style="background:#214f43;color:#fff;" | Current significance
! style="background:#214f43;color:#fff;width:25%;" | Related WikiChristian articles
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| '''Global discipleship''' || Churches are reconsidering how evangelism, baptism, teaching, mentoring and church membership work together to form mature followers of Christ. || [[Discipleship]], [[Great Commission]], [[Spiritual formation]]
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| '''Changing mission leadership''' || Churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become major centers of missionary sending, theological reflection and church growth. || [[Christian missions]], [[Christianity in Africa]], [[Christianity in Asia]]
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| '''Biblical literacy''' || Churches are developing print, audio, video, oral and digital resources to help Christians understand Scripture in context. || [[Bible study]], [[Biblical interpretation]], [[Christian education]]
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| '''Religious liberty''' || Governments and courts continue to debate the rights of churches, converts, religious minorities and faith-based organizations. || [[Religious freedom]], [[Freedom of conscience]], [[Persecution of Christians]]
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| '''Digital ministry''' || Churches use streaming, podcasts, social media and online teaching while confronting misinformation, privacy concerns and reduced personal accountability. || [[Christianity and the Internet]], [[Christian media]], [[Online church]]
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| '''Pastoral integrity''' || Abuse prevention, financial transparency, safeguarding, shared leadership and accountability remain major concerns for churches and ministries. || [[Christian ministry]], [[Pastoral care]], [[Christian ethics]]
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| '''Mission and political identity''' || Evangelical leaders continue debating how churches can participate in public life without confusing the Gospel with a political party, nation or ideology. || [[Christianity and politics]], [[Christian nationalism]], [[Church and state]]
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==Prayer guide==

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Christians may pray:

# for people grieving after earthquakes in Colombia, Indonesia and Venezuela;
# for the safe recovery of communities affected by disaster, conflict and displacement;
# for Christians imprisoned, abducted or threatened because of their faith;
# for Pastor Nihad Hassan and missionary Kevin Rideout as they recover from captivity;
# for the family of Pastor Raymond Koh and for truth concerning his disappearance;
# for peace and protection for Christians and other communities in Nigeria, Sudan and Mali;
# for wisdom, courage and integrity among pastors, missionaries and church leaders;
# for faithful Bible translation into every language that still lacks adequate Scripture;
# for churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America as they lead global mission;
# for religious freedom and justice for people of every faith;
# for Christian relief organizations to serve without manipulation or discrimination;
# for the Gospel to be proclaimed with truth, humility, compassion and love.
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==News sources==

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<div style="font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;color:#17483b;">Mission and evangelical news</div>

* [https://worldea.org/ World Evangelical Alliance]
* [https://www.missionnetworknews.org/ Mission Network News]
* [https://lausanne.org/ Lausanne Movement]
* [https://wycliffe.net/news/ Wycliffe Global Alliance]
* [https://www.baptistpress.com/ Baptist Press]
* [https://www.christianitytoday.com/ Christianity Today]

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 :"The Lord shall wipe all tears from the eyes of his Saints.