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CSW is calling on the Chinese government to permit Pastor John Cao, who holds permanent residency in the United States and who has been diagnosed with stage four cancer, to leave China so that he might be reunited with his family. He has held a US green card for over 30 years.

CSW is calling on the Nicaraguan government to ensure that the serious medical needs of imprisoned Protestant pastor Efrén Antonio Vílchez López are met as a matter of urgency, after receiving reports that prison officials are withholding medicine brought to him by family members.

CSW has learned of a terrorist attack which took place on 9 September and targeted indigenous Christians from the Ungwan Mato community in Arewa Local Government Area (LGA), Kebbi State, Nigeria.

Myanmar’s military junta has arbitrarily ordered the immediate sealing of temporary prayer halls within the historic Miba Zay Mosque compound in Mandalay, alongside sweeping restrictions prohibiting collective worship, religious sermons and access to the site.

A Protestant pastor was released under precautionary measures after spending over three months in detention in Havana, Cuba on 11 September.

A bishop associated with the Renewed Moravian Evangelical Church (IEMR) has been detained incommunicado in Managua, Nicaragua for almost two weeks.

Muslim worshippers in the city of Ibri in Sudans Northern State assaulted an imam and desecrated and burned the mosque to the ground following Friday prayers on 4 September.

CSW has learned that three more people abducted from Awon village in the Kachia Local Government Area (LGA) of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria on 20 April have died in captivity.

A 65-year-old member of the Ahmadi community was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the city of Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab Province, Pakistan on 2 September.

A human rights activist has confirmed to CSW that Bishop Dr. Jylman Red Jurado Farfán was released from Rodeo III Prison in Miranda State, Venezuela, on 14 August after over five years in prison.

CSW is concerned at the continued imprisonment of 76-year-old Christian activist Arun Pannalal after a court rejected his bail application on 24 August.

An airstrike by the Myanmar military on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing Region killed at least 14 civilians and wounded 20 others as they gathered for a meditation retreat on 21 August.

CSW today marks the ninth anniversary of the 2017 military campaign against the Rohingya population in Myanmar, which is currently the subject of a landmark genocide case before the International Court of Justice.

The founder and senior pastor of a prominent unregistered house church and six other Christians were detained by police in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on 5 August.

A Montagnard Protestant pastor was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on the charge of undermining the national unity policy by the People's Court of k Lk Province.

A Kurdish Baptist pastor from a Muslim background who was arrested whilst visiting his family in Afrin, Syria, was detained without charge from 20 July until 3 August.

A church leader from the Sudanese Episcopal Church in Heban, in Sudans Nuba Mountains, was executed extrajudicially on 23 July along with six other people from the Otoro ethnic group.

An Alawite woman was killed and her son was badly wounded in an attack by an unknown armed gunman in Homs on 26 July.

The government of India re-introduced the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, on 20 July, the first day of the second annual session of parliament.

CSW is calling for urgent intervention by Nigerias state and federal authorities to secure the release of villagers abducted for ransom in April from the Kachia LGA of southern Kaduna State.