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Remember the Prisoners

Burned mud-brick farmhouse with charred roof beams at dawn, a whitewashed village church standing untouched beyond maize fields and low mist on a green plateau
  1. Part 1 of 7 Nigeria's Middle Belt, Village by Village Plateau, Benue, and Southern Kaduna by name: the massacres, the kidnapped clergy, Leah Sharibu and Deborah Samuel, what the United States has actually done since the October 2025 designation, and the half-million people living in Benue's camps.
  2. Part 2 of 7 Accusation Is the Weapon How Pakistan's blasphemy laws work in practice: the Zia-era statutes, the accusation-loudspeaker-mob pattern from Gojra to Sargodha, the entrapment rings exposed since 2024, and the debt and forced marriages that hit Christian families hardest.
  3. Part 3 of 7 The House Church How the Islamic Republic of Iran tolerates Armenian and Assyrian churches while prosecuting Persian-speaking converts, from the 1994 murders of three pastors to the post-war arrests of 2025.
  4. Part 4 of 7 The Registered Pulpit How China's Communist Party governs churches by license, from the 2018 religious regulations to the 2025 online clergy code, told through Wang Yi, Jin Mingri, the eight Zion Church leaders still held, and the Catholic bishops the Party will not recognize.
  5. Part 5 of 7 The Worst Place on Earth to Own a Bible North Korea has ranked first on the World Watch List every year since 2002 except one. What the UN, the State Department, and Korea Future have documented about how the regime punishes Christians, their children, and refugees sent back from China.
  6. Part 6 of 7 Freedom of Religion Acts India's state anti-conversion laws, the incident counts that have climbed every year since 2021, Manipur told with both its ethnic and religious dimensions, and why Washington keeps declining its own commission's advice.
  7. Part 7 of 7 Open Your Mouth for the Mute The practical toolkit for Christians who want to stand up for the persecuted church: the US religious-freedom law you can press on, how named-prisoner advocacy works, how to write a letter that helps instead of hurts, and one case to raise with Congress this week.