Even though an Indonesian congregation’s construction plan has the support of local residents, the building project is encountering unexpected pushback.
The head of the largest evangelical adoption agency in the U.S. is hopeful the nation once recognized as a global leader in international orphan care will reprioritize its commitment to vulnerable children.
The “blasphemy business group’s” actions are “said to have ensnared more than 400 innocent people, including Christians, in a surge of false blasphemy cases in the last two years,” the news sources say.
Fifteen more Nigerian Christians have been killed as factions opposed to believers continue their massacres and wreak havoc upon churches and communities.
In January, Kyrgyzstan’s president signed a new religion law that further represses faith communities by limiting their existence, worship and literature and prohibiting public witnessing.
Nigeria has led the world in the number of Christians killed for their faith. Nigeria is No. 7 on Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.