Nigeria — Yomi Adetula, a respected 54-year-old leader of the Celestial Church of Christ, Eagle Parish, in Ogun state, Nigeria, was shot during a morning service on Sunday, Jan. 19, by gunmen reportedly affiliated with a cult group targeting Christian communities.

The community admired Adetula for his devotion to prayer and community service and for serving as a commander in the Ogun State So-Safe Security outfit. Eyewitnesses recounted a distressing scene as three attackers entered the church and fired upon the congregation.

“Adetula was a man of God who dedicated himself to serving the community,” said Adewale Amos, a local community leader. “We face challenges from groups that oppose spiritual efforts, and we must advocate for greater awareness and collective action to protect the rights of Christians to worship freely.”

The Ogun State Police have confirmed the incident and are actively investigating to identify and apprehend those responsible. A statement from the Police Public Relations Office acknowledged the seriousness of the crime and affirmed their commitment to bringing justice to the affected community.
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മിണ്ടാമഠത്തിലെ സന്യാസിനിമാരെ മനാഗ്വയിലെയും ചൈനാൻഡേഗയിലെയും അവരുടെ സന്യാസ മഠങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും പുറത്താക്കി നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം. മൊസൈക്കോ സി. എസ്. ഐ. പത്രം പറയുന്നതനുസരിച്ച് ജനുവരി 28-ന് രാത്രിയാണ് സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം തങ്ങളുടെ ഉത്തരവ് നടപ്പിലാക്കിയത്. തൽഫലമായി ഓർഡർ ഓഫ് സെന്റ് ക്ലെയറിലെ 30 ഓളം സന്യാസിനിമാർക്ക് അവരുടെ മഠങ്ങൾ വിട്ടുപോകേണ്ടിവന്നു.

“സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം ആദ്യം മനാഗ്വയിലെ ആശ്രമത്തിലും പിന്നീട് ചൈനാൻഡേഗയിലെ ആശ്രമത്തിലും എത്തി സന്യാസിനിമാരോട് മഠം വിട്ടുപോകണമെന്ന് പറയുകയും അവരുടെ ചില സാധനങ്ങൾ മാത്രം എടുക്കാൻ അനുവദിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു” നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ ഉറവിടം കൂട്ടിച്ചേർത്തു. പുറത്താക്കപ്പെട്ട സന്യാസിനിമാരിൽ ഭൂരിഭാഗംപേരും നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ സ്വദേശികളാണ്. അവർ എവിടെയാണെന്ന കാര്യം അജ്ഞാതമായി തുടരുന്നു.

നിക്കരാഗ്വയിൽ കത്തോലിക്കാ സഭയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം നടത്തിയ ആയിരത്തോളം ആക്രമണങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് ‘നിക്കരാഗ്വ: എ പെർസിക്യുട്ടഡ് ചർച്ച്’ എന്ന റിപ്പോർട്ടിന്റെ രചയിതാവും അഭിഭാഷകയുമായ മാർത്ത പട്രീഷ്യ മൊലിന വെളിപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു.
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Nicaragua’s government has expelled over 30 nuns from three convents in its latest assault on detractors, and their whereabouts are unknown, a researcher and exiled media reported on Wednesday.

Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer and expert on matters concerning the Catholic Church, told AFP the women were “evicted from their monasteries” overnight by government agents.

It was not known if the nuns, mainly Nicaraguan, had left the country, said Molina, herself in exile in the United States.

Nicaragua has jailed hundreds of real and perceived opponents since former leftist guerrilla Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007, quashing presidential term limits and seizing control of all branches of the state.

According to the United Nations, more than 300 people died in a crackdown on 2018 protests, which Ortega’s government denounced as an attempted coup.

Most independent and opposition media now operate from abroad.

One of them, the online news site Confidencial operating from Costa Rica, reported the nuns were expelled from convents in the capital Managua and two other sites.

The exiled La Prensa newspaper said the order the women belonged to had its credentials scrapped by the government in 2023 with other Church-linked NGOs.

Ortega and his wife, vice president Rosario Murillo, accuse the Catholic Church of supporting the 2018 protests.

A constitutional reform approved last year is due to come into effect within days, giving Ortega and Murillo absolute power over all affairs of state.

It allows for the media and the Church to be monitored for any allegiance to “foreign interests.”

Ortega’s Sandinista rebels toppled a US-backed dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979.

He led the country until 1990 and returned to power in 2007 with a more moderate program.

But in recent years he has seized control of all branches of government and led a sweeping crackdown on groups he sees as a threat to his rule.

Hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, journalists, intellectuals, human rights activists and religious figures have been expelled from Nicaragua and stripped of their nationality since February 2023, accused of treason.

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China — The drawn-out saga between the People’s Court of Shunde District in Foshan, Guandong, and the Shengjia House Church seems to be ending.

On Jan. 17, the People’s Court sentenced Preacher Deng Yanxiang to two years in prison. He is scheduled to be released in May because he has already served more than 18 months.

Preacher Deng Yanxiang joins four other members of his house church who have been imprisoned for alleged illegal business operations. The charges were tied to the church’s publications, including Daily Bible Readings and Interpretations, which were sold and distributed to locals.

These five Shengjia Christians were arrested in August 2023 for their Christian literature and materials. Local Christians have said that charges by local Communist officials for fraud and “illegal business operations” are frequently used against unregistered house churches throughout China.
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