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Children reported among 21 Christians killed in Congo church massacre

7/31/2025

At least 40 people, including Christians, have been killed in what Open Doors has described as a "killing spree" in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Of the victims, 21 were attending a prayer vigil in a Catholic church at the time of the attack at around 1am on Sunday morning.

The attack was carried out in Komanda, Ituri province, in eastern DRC. It has been attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an affiliate of the so-called Islamic State.

In addition to the church, other deaths occurred in nearby houses and businesses that had been torched.

Christians have been speaking out about the situation in DRC amid protracted violence and a February massacre in which 70 people were found dead inside a church, many of them having been beheaded.
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Hundreds of Syrian Christians hiding in church as violence rages

7/31/2025

The ongoing sectarian conflict between Druze and Bedouins in the Syrian city of Suwayda has continued to impact the Christian community there, with over 250 people taking shelter in the Capuchin Church of Jesus the King.

The conflict has already drawn in Israel, who have carried out strikes in support of the Druze, many of whom live in Israeli occupied territory and serve in its military. The Druze practise a syncretic faith which has its origins in Shia Islam. The Bedouins are Sunni Muslims.

However, faith does not appear to be the main motivator for violence. Recently a Christian convert from the Druze community was killed along with 11 members of his family. While details of the murders remain sketchy, sources indicate the convert was killed for his Druze background, rather than his Christian faith.

Now, around 60 to 70 families, many of them Christian, have abandoned their villages to take refuge in the church, apparently in the hope of weathering the ongoing storm.

Sources on the ground have told the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that locals lack water, food and electricity. Militants are looting warehouses, while shelling and bombardment are a continuing threat.

An anonymous witness said, “In recent days, the church compound was hit by intense shelling. A shell struck the monastery, causing significant damage to water tanks and glass windows. Miraculously, no one inside the church was injured.”

Another said, “The siege continues, and sniper fire makes it impossible to get out.
“Sporadic gunshots are heard and fear is constant, with no clarity on who the fighting factions are. There are still many missing people – they could be in other villages, or dead in their homes.”
There is no guarantee for Christians in the area that they will be left alone while the Druze and Bedouins settle their differences.

Earlier this month St Michael’s Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Al-Soura Al-Kabirawas was significantly damaged in an attack and at least 38 Christian homes have been destroyed, forcing residents to take refuge in a church hall. In Shahba.

There they continue to live in siege conditions, with no outside aid coming to bring relief.
The situation appears to indicate that the new Syrian government, despite its stated aim of creating an inclusive Syria free of sectarian violence, is simply unable to make this dream a reality in a land that is awash with a multitude of armed militant groups.

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Pastor Khalid Mezher martyred alongside his family in Suwayda, Syria

7/31/2025

Khalid Mezher, pastor of the “Good Shepherd Evangelical Church” in Suwayda, was martyred along with his entire family — including his siblings, their children, and his parents — in a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of around twenty members of a single family.

Pastor Mezher, who was of Druze origin and hailed from Suwayda Governorate, had converted to Christianity with his family many years ago. He continued to serve his Church and the people of the city with dedication until the moment of his martyrdom.
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The statement noted that the city remains under heavy shelling and missile attacks of various kinds, even after the announcement of a ceasefire. It also highlighted the complete absence of humanitarian aid, while Suwayda has been under a suffocating siege for ten consecutive days, with no signs of relief.

Israel Attacks Catholic Church In Gaza

7/19/2025

France condemns Israeli attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot slammed Israel’s attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church as “unacceptable”.
The attack killed at least two people.
“Unacceptable attack in Gaza against the Church of the Holy Family, historically under the protection of France,” he said, referring to a 16th-century accord during the Ottoman Empire’s reign, under which France oversaw territory in the name of protecting Catholics in Palestine.

Israeli Attacks On Gaza Churches: A List
Today’s attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City is far from an isolated case.
Since October 7, 2023, verified attacks on Gaza churches by Israeli forces include:

St Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church: Air strike killed 18, damaged building.
Holy Family Catholic Church: Snipers killed two women.
Holy Family Catholic Church: Strike injured several, including priest; building damaged.
Byzantine Church of Jabalia: Destroyed by air strikes.
Monastery of St Hilarion: Damaged in bombardments.

Israel claims it did not intentionally target any of the churches.

Death toll in Gaza church attack rises to three
At least three people have been confirmed killed in Israel’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has said.
Ten others were wounded, including one in critical condition and two in serious condition.
The patriarchate urged world leaders to act to stop the war on Gaza.
“The time has come for leaders to raise their voices and to do all that is necessary in order to stop this tragedy which is humanly and morally unjustified,” it said in a statement.

The Greatest Move of God

7/18/2025

Christians Contend With New Warnings In Syria

7/18/2025

Syria has suffered through a brutal civil war between government forces and anti-government Muslim factions. During the conflict, which began in 2011, more than 750,000 Christians fled the country. Those who remained in Syria endured not only horrific violence but also restrictions similar to those seen in other Muslim nations throughout the region. But since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, in December 2024, our Christian brothers and sisters in Syria have experienced the freedom to practise their faith in ways not previously possible.

One Christian who remained in Syria during the civil war pastored a church in the northwestern part of the country. In 2021, Assad’s regime closed the church, and it remained closed after the pastor’s death. Yet church members continued to gather secretly in homes for the next three years.

“We loved each other deeply and stayed united during the closure,” a church member said. “The key verse during that time was Romans 8:37, “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Our victory wasn’t about possessions or even reopening the church; our victory was in Christ. And because we had already overcome in Him, God prepared everything so that we could rejoice even more when the church finally reopened.”

Following the overthrow of Assad, the church began gathering publicly again on 12 January.

“We had been praying for God to intervene because my house was getting too small for everyone,” the church member said. “When we returned, the church members shared the cost of renovating the building and buying batteries for electricity. We all felt great joy and confidence in the Lord. It was an answer to prayer.”

While the reopening of churches and relative freedom to practise their faith openly are hopeful developments for Christians in Syria, they remain cautious, still under the oppressive shadow of the new governing authorities’ Islamist ideology. The interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is the head of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a group with ties to al-Qaida that is considered by some nations, including Australia, to be a terrorist organisation.

Front-line workers report that the new authorities, who control public security, the military and the interim government, have increased the influence of Islam in public life. They have introduced Koranic study into the school curriculum and created Muslim prayer spaces in public places and universities. Muslims have also reportedly been distributing Islamic religious pamphlets in predominantly Christian areas.

“These changes … raise concerns about [the governing authorities’] long-term impact,” said a VOM worker.

Another front-line worker reported that pastors in different parts of the country have been told by leaders associated with the government, “Just wait until we get our feet on the ground; then we will deal with the Christians.” The VOM worker said the situation remains especially dangerous for Muslim background believers.

“Many Muslim-background believers are currently feeling fearful of being targeted,” he said, “as the new authorities have adopted a stricter Islamic stance.”

Voice of the Martyrs

From The Priests Of Taybeh

7/16/2025

The original Church of St George, built by the Byzantines in the 4th century

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An Open Letter to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee

Jul 10, 2025

The Honorable Mike Huckabee
United States Embassy in Israel

40 David Flusser Street
Jerusalem 9378322, Israel
Dear Ambassador Mike Huckabee,

On July 7th, the village of Taybeh in the Holy Land made international news after a group of Israeli settlers set fire to its Christian cemetery and nearly destroyed the Church of St. George in an arson attack, one of the oldest and most important Christian holy sites in the West Bank.

As I spoke with my Christian contacts in the Holy Land this week, I was pained by memories of the conversations I had with them during a recent visit. They spoke with great dignity of their heritage. This community can trace their lineage all the way back to the first Jews who accepted the Gospel and received the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room.

But they were afraid. And they did not speak only about fearing Israel’s mighty army and powerful politicians, and they didn’t only dread the Jewish settlers setting fire to their homes and destroying their farmlands and businesses.

No, they spoke fearfully of you, Mike Huckabee – my friend and fellow countryman and a dignitary specifically assigned to represent our Christian nation’s interests to the Israeli government.
Taybeh isn’t just any town. It is the only remaining town in the Holy Land still populated entirely by indigenous Christians. It’s a town explicitly mentioned in Scripture as the home of saints. Our Lord Jesus Christ spent nights there with His friends before His arrest, death, and resurrection in Jerusalem – just nine miles away.

Now? The Christian population in the Holy Land has been reduced to about 1% as Jewish settlers – with the clear backing of Israeli officials and soldiers – illegally and violently drive them out. During another settler attack in Taybeh just last month, the gangs reportedly put up signs in town reading “YOU HAVE NO FUTURE HERE.”

While Israel pummeled their fellow Palestinian Christians in Gaza and imposed draconian new travel restrictions that keep members of the ancient Christian community in the West Bank from visiting relatives in neighboring towns, the residents of the Holy Land I spoke with last year were already living in fear. In Bethlehem, some even told me they were afraid this past year’s Christmas would be the last to be celebrated by Christians in the place of Christ’s birth.

“We’re afraid they will do to our churches what they have done to Gaza’s,” one pastor told me. Israel had bombed every church in Gaza, eliciting strong statements of solidarity from the Vatican and the Orthodox Church. Since then, Pope Leo XIV has also issued numerous statements of concern for the Christians of the West Bank, condemning the violence and intimidation of Jewish settler groups.

At the time, I thought the pastor’s fear was an irrational one. Now? On reflection, I am forced to ask myself a question that confirms the fears of the Holy Land’s Christians: Where are Mike Huckabee’s statements of solidarity?

“I know Ambassador Huckabee to be a devout and sincere man,” I told Christians in the West Bank earlier this year when they told me how they feared you. “He will listen to the voice of Christ.”
But will you? Will you be a friend to Christians in the birthplace of your faith – or will you remain a mere political operative, feared by your own people?

The three priests of Taybeh – Greek Orthodox, Latin, and Melkite – issued a powerful statement after July’s arson attack on St. George’s Church and Taybeh’s cemetery. They made clear it was not an isolated incident, but only the latest in an “ongoing and grave series” of “relentless attacks that threaten our very existence on this land.”

“In a scene that has become provocatively routine, settlers continue to graze their cattle in Taybeh's agricultural lands, including family-owned fields and areas near residential homes, without deterrence or intervention from the authorities,” they warned. “These violations go beyond provocation; they cause direct harm to olive trees–a vital source of livelihood for the people of Taybeh–and prevent farmers from accessing and cultivating their land.”

“Illegal settlement outposts” in Taybeh are continuing to “expand quietly under military protection,” they complained. “These outposts serve as a base for further assaults on the land and its people.”

The priests called on “local and international actors,” including you, ambassador, to intervene on behalf of the besieged Christians of Teybeh by “[applying] diplomatic pressure on the occupying authorities to halt settler actions….”

They also called for “international … delegations to conduct field visits, document the damages, and bear witness to the deteriorating reality on the ground.”

The anti-Christian violence boiling over in the Holy Land is happening right under your nose, ambassador. As an outspoken Christian and an official representative to the Israeli government, you are arguably more directly responsible for the fate of Christians in the West Bank than any other person on Earth – even more directly involved, as God’s providence would have it, than the region’s pastors.

I am calling on you to act on the responsibility that I believe Our Lord has imposed on you. Start by visiting Taybeh and Bethlehem and listening humbly to the Christian flock and their pastors. Put yourself not above them as a menacing, distant politician, but at their feet as their servant. God will reward your effort.

“We believe that the Holy Land cannot remain alive without its indigenous people. Forcibly removing farmers from their land, threatening their churches, and encircling their towns is a wound to the living heart of this nation,” Taybeh’s priests wrote in their letter. “Yet we remain steadfast in our shared faith and hope that truth and justice will ultimately prevail.”
I stand with them in that faith. Will you?

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"They tried to bury us—but they didn't realize we were seeds."

7/15/2025

Ten years ago today, I released CMP's first undercover video report.

The first video caught Planned Parenthood's top abortion doctor executive, PPFA's Senior Director of Medical Services Dr. Deborah Nucatola, boasting about using partial-birth abortions to harvest the tiny hearts, lungs, livers, and brains of living, late-term babies for sale to government-sponsored experiments.

Ten years later, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and Planned Parenthood has been DEFUNDED nationwide!

If you're anything like me, you probably wish that this all could have happened immediately, instead of taking ten years to play out. But I hope you will accept my profound gratitude for your support and concern over the past decade--by standing firm, together, we've been able to achieve HISTORIC changes to make our country better and safer for mothers and babies.

You can read more of my reflections on today here on X (formerly known as Twitter).

What we are now witnessing is a "perfect storm" that can "roll up" the abortion industry and change the course of history for our unborn brothers and sisters and their families who have been threatened by this lethal business for far too long.

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed state and federal executive authority to exclude abortion providers from government funding. And the House Oversight Committee's DOGE Subcommittee, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, is now investigating Planned Parenthood's: abortion business and fetal organ harvesting programs.

All this activity comes just a few months after President Trump told reporters that his administration "will look into" criminal prosecution of Planned Parenthood's harvesting and sale of late-term aborted baby body parts:

THANK YOU again for all your steadfast support over the years of my investigative reporting at The Center for Medical Progress. We survived 10 years of lawfare and establishment media smears, raids and prosecutions by Kamala Harris and others, and a $25 million campaign by Planned Parenthood and their allies to try to silence our reporting—all because they were trying to stop today from ever happening. BUT THEY FAILED—because I had your help every step of the way.

As the old proverb goes, "They tried to bury us—but they didn't realize we were seeds."

This summer, we are diligently preparing to report on horrifying revelations in new records our FOIA investigation is surfacing from the laboratories buying baby body parts from Planned Parenthood and working on a groundbreaking documentary project that will tell the stories of the infants and their families victimized by the abortion industry with a depth that has never been seen before.

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After Massacre, Nigeria’s Benue, Plateau States Attacked Anew

7/8/2025

Four more Christians slain in Guma County; 64 dead in Plateau state.
July 7, 2025 By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News

ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Less than three weeks after a large-scale massacre in Benue state’s predominantly Christian Yelwata village in Nigeria, four Christians were slain in the same county, sources said.
“Four more Christians were killed by armed Fulani herdsmen in Tse Asha, Ukange, Adeor and Udei communities on June 30,” area resident Samuel Tivta told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “In these attacks also, two Christians were injured, Nensha Adeor and Kator Gbenge. Both were attacked as they were working on their farms in Adeor village.”
Another Christian was kidnapped in Adeor village on June 26 and remains captive by herdsmen, Tivta added.
The assailants also burned down houses of Christian villagers and destroyed properties, said area resident Zege Orkwande.

Plateau State: 64 Killed
In Plateau state also in central Nigeria, six Christian were slain in the past week in Riyom County, the latest of 64 people killed in the area in recent weeks, sources said.
Five Christians were killed on Thursday (July 3) in Jol, and another was slain in Dangwal the previous day, residents of Jol, Rim and Dangwal said. Fulani herdsmen began attacking in the last week of June, they said.
The assailants attacked Jol from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., said Zere Samuel.
“Mr. Francis Danjuma, a Christian from Jol community, was killed by the Fulani herdsmen,” Samuel told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News, concurring with reports by other residents.
Killed in the Jol raid were Gyang Mwanti and Precious Benjamin, “also victims of a cruel ambush against them by armed herdsmen in Jol community,” area resident George Lambert said in a text message. In the attack on Dangwal village on July 2, a Christian woman was reportedly killed.
Area youth leader Zang Davou said thousands of people have been displaced, scores injured and entire communities reduced to rubble in the past few months.
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Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.
Nigeria remained among the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. Of the 4,476 Christians killed for their faith worldwide during the reporting period, 3,100 (69 percent) were in Nigeria, according to the WWL.

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