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  Calls for Colombia to protect religious freedom

  Anita Laryea | Sat 22 Apr 2023 6:33 BST

  Religious leaders and human rights defenders fear that proposed changes to FoRB laws will leave religious groups in rural areas and conflict zones even more vulnerable

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  Kinshasa's big plastic problem - and how the Church is helping to turn things around

  Seren Boyd, Bin Twinning | Sat 22 Apr 2023 6:22 BST

  The waters of the Congo are choked with rubbish and plastic, but churches are playing a key role in collecting this waste and turning it into something useful.

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  Majority of world's Anglicans formally reject leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury

  Susie Leafe | Sat 22 Apr 2023 6:18 BST

  "This failure of church discipline has been compounded by the current Archbishop of Canterbury who has himself welcomed the provision of liturgical resources to bless these practices contrary to Scripture. This renders his leadership role in the Anglican Communion entirely indefensible."

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  Charles Stanley, Baptist pastor and televangelist, dies at 90

  Michael Gryboski | Wed 19 Apr 2023 12:57 BST

  Charles Frazier Stanley, the popular televangelist preacher, author and founder of In Touch Ministries who once served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died at age 90 on Tuesday morning.

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  Jihadists bomb Christian Good Friday service in Uganda

  Morning Star News | Tue 18 Apr 2023 6:54 BST

  Suspect sought Allah's reward, source says.

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  Terrorists kill 33 Christians in village in Kaduna State, Nigeria

  Morning Star News | Tue 18 Apr 2023 6:52 BST

  Anglican bishop says government is capable of stopping bloodshed.

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  Russia bombed Ukraine church on Orthodox Easter, says official

  Staff writer | Mon 17 Apr 2023 11:40 BST

  A Ukrainian official has claimed that the Russian military attacked a church in Ukraine on Sunday as many Ukrainians were celebrating the Orthodox Easter.

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  Orthodox Anglicans meet in Rwanda to discuss their future in the Communion

  Susie Leafe | Mon 17 Apr 2023 6:27 BST

  GAFCON IV, meeting this week in Rwanda, hopes to transform the Anglican Communion.

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  Tributes paid to 'trailblazer' OM founder George Verwer

  Jennifer Lee | Mon 17 Apr 2023 2:10 BST

  Christian leaders have been paying tribute to Operation Mobilization founder George Verwer, who passed away on Friday.

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  Joe Biden in emotional encounter with priest who performed late son's last rites

  Jennifer Lee | Sat 15 Apr 2023 6:39 BST

  Joe Biden has said it was "incredible" to meet the priest who performed the last rites for his late son, Beau, during his visit to Ireland this week.

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  Myanmar sentences Baptist pastor to 6 years in prison after speaking out against atrocities

  Anugrah Kumar | Fri 14 Apr 2023 8:18 BST

  A court in Myanmar has sentenced the former president of the Kachin Baptist Convention Hkalam Samson, who was arrested and detained by the country's junta in December, to six years in prison.

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  'Unique' Christian wall paintings discovered in Sudan

  Jennifer Lee | Fri 14 Apr 2023 6:17 BST

  The archaeologists said that the scenes were "unique for Christian art".