36% voted ‘no’ in the referendum. The Swiss Evangelical Alliance expresses “sadness” over an outcome that “puts desires of adults over rights of children”.

The entity was created by the government of Imran Khan. Pakistani Christians say it “quotes and voices the minority issues, but it has not real power” to protect them. 

Among the cultural legacy that the Welsh missionary George Lawrence left to the evangelicals in Catalonia is a collection of hymns in the local language that have been sung for generations.

Three Christian converts were accused of promoting “propaganda against Islam”, according to the new restrictive Penal Code. Iranian believers ask to pray for encouragement and strength.

After less than five months, Christos Stylianides left to become the new climate crisis Minister of Greece.

The military announced a government of national unity. Guinean evangelicals ask to pray “for the unity of the church, socio-political stability and support to promote the gospel”.

The LGBT lobby in Castellón (Spain) asks the administration to “take actions” against the evangelical church and its social projects. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance condemns the “coercion” of freedom of speech.

“God not only guarded us, He also orchestrated everything for His glory and the good of His work”, says Yéremi Blanco, one of the pastors detained in Cuba, after the resolution of his case.

A 50-year-old Christian sanitation worker was allegedly groped and had clothes torn off by her supervisor in front of other employees.

The case of Yéremi Blanco and Yarián Sierra is closed after paying a fine for participating in the peaceful demonstrations of July.

Over 30 still remain in captivity. According to UNICEF, at least 1,000 children and youth have been adbucted in Nigeria in the last nine months.

The UN has included the travel bans and deportations of Protestant leaders and the protection of religious minorities in the list of issues to be raised with the Turkish government.

The Early Rain Covenant church was already shuttered 2 years ago. Children under 18 are not allowed at church.

The World Evangelical Alliance commemorates its 175th anniversary, focusing on “the central role of Jesus, the Bible and transforming the world by preaching and practising the gospel”.

The government has fled and extremists have proclaimed a new Islamic State. “With the Taliban in power, the vulnerability of believers increases tenfold”, Christian organisations warn.

The EFI has published its report on the persecution of Christians in the first six months of 2021. They have identified 145 incidents, including three murders.

The confinement and the Covid-19 restrictions in the Mediterranean country led to a generalised fall in all kind of hate crimes. Statistics could be “deceitful”, says the government.

Hatun Tash is a Christian apologist who has been sharing the gospel with Muslims in the well-known Speaker’s Corner of Hyde Park.

The pastors have been charged with the crime of “public disorder”. The theological seminary of which they are co-workers thanks for the prayers.

Christians demonstrate in the streets of Tizi-Ouzou with singing and signs: “Stop the abuse of power”.

The pandemic has added more pressure to a population suffering a “humanitarian crisis”, evangelicals in the island say. “Pray that God takes control and prevents a bloodbath”.

Iran’s newly amended penal code, which states that “any deviant education or propaganda that contradicts or interferes with the sacred Sharia [Islamic law] will be severely punished”.

Satanists set fire to many churches in Norway in the 1990s. Now churches are not attacked as often as they used to, and smaller denominations hardly ever experience church fires.

In a strongly worded report, the WEA representatives at the United Nations Human Rights Council say the Hindu nationalist government of India “solidified the environment of hate and intolerance toward religious minorities”.

An evangelical pastor was arrested in the community of Mitzitón (Mexico) as he returned home to visit his mother. Since 1982, over 180 houses of evangelicals have been destroyed in this municipality.