Background In 2026, an estimated 21.9 million people, around 45% of Afghanistan’s population, will require humanitarian assistance, reflecting only a slight decrease from 2025 and keeping Afghanistan among the world’s largest humanitarian crises. This includes 17.4 million people facing acute food
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. In Katsina state, where MSF runs its largest nutrition programme, the number of children treated between January and August 2026 was slightly lower than during the same period in 2025. However, the figure remains extremely high, and the nutritional crisis across the region cont...
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Members of the Druze community attacked a Lebanese Druze family that had become followers of Christ. The beating was severe enough that the couple’s young son was hospitalized and they had to flee their home. “A friend had to find them and take them into hiding for th...
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William, a pastor in Chin State, Myanmar, and another Christian man, Pu Nam Ceu, were arrested by soldiers from Myanmar’s military on May 16, 2026, and later killed while in military custody. Before his arrest, the pastor sent his wife and five children to the relative safe...
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A Christian man in northern Mozambique remains faithful to Christ after extreme torture. In 2019, Felizardo Lourenco, now 40, was captured by Islamic State insurgents in the region. While in captivity, Felizardo was tortured severely and set on fire when he would not renounce Chr...
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. On recense une augmentation sans précédent des blessés par arme sur toutes les lignes de front ; Marib, Taïz et la côte de la Mer Rouge comptent parmi les régions qui enregistrent le plus grand nombre de victimes. Les hôpitaux et les structures de santé sont débordés. Certaines...
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Melissa and Courtney talk with Randy Alcorn about what we can and can’t know about the life to come. They talk about the importance of understanding the new earth and its continuity with this world, and they discuss what we know about the state of those who die in Christ be...
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Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar . 01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND STRATEGIC TAKEAWAYS A fourth Presence Confirmation Exercise (PCE) was conducted in September 2026 to confirm refugee presence on the island of Bhasan Char and gather qualitative insights to inform planning. While the overa...
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Syria (MNN) — A pastor traveling in Syria this week to help start new churches needs your prayers. He’s following in the footsteps of Kurdish Pastor Nihad Hassan, who was arrested in July under trumped-up charges. Pierre Houssney with Horizons International says Pastor Nihad had ...
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MENA (MNN) — Christian education often provides much-needed spiritual support for Arab believers. The Program for Theological Education by Extension (PTEE) offers biblical courses to Arab Christian leaders in their home countries and across the diaspora. Erin James of PTEE explai...
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The question of using AI during sermon preparation seems to be getting more than a bit of attention these days, and the overall direction of some pastors’ thinking on that question concerns me. It concerns me deeply. I remember receiving my first email from an AI-sermon-assistant...
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Countries: Lebanon, Germany . New York, 8 October 2026 – The Government of Germany is providing an additional €5 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support stability and recovery in Lebanon through the country’s Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), bringing its...
