A preacher teaching about Christ’s divinity was assaulted at an evangelistic event in Uganda, and so were the Christians trying to rescue him from the melee.
August brought more reports of Christians in Nigeria killed, attacked and abducted. The country is No. 6 on Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
Police in China raided a church’s summer youth camp and detained four Christian adults for “carrying out activities in the name of an illegal social organization.”
The pastor of a church in Minsk, Belarus, repeatedly targeted by government entities now faces more actions following a bus accident apparently caused by road conditions.