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Ohio Judge Convicts Former Church Figure on 27 Felony Counts
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Ohio Judge Convicts Former Church Figure on 27 Felony Counts

A Knox County, Ohio, judge found Tom Keesee guilty on 27 felony counts, including rape and sexual conduct with a minor. Calls are growing for leaders of Faith Life Church to step down.

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Churches Respond to Colombia Quake, Ecuador Floods and Sudanese Refugees in Egypt
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Churches Respond to Colombia Quake, Ecuador Floods and Sudanese Refugees in Egypt

Churches in Colombia, Ecuador and Egypt are feeding, sheltering and supporting people hit by disaster or displacement. The Colombian quake killed at least 132 people, and a Methodist district in Egypt now serves more than 1,300 members, most of them refugees.

Global Christians Network·Nov 10, 2026
Egyptian Coptic Deacon Killed by ISIS in Libya for Refusing to Renounce Christ
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Egyptian Coptic Deacon Killed by ISIS in Libya for Refusing to Renounce Christ

Sources report that Milad Malak, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian deacon, was tortured and killed by ISIS-linked militants in Libya in October after refusing to convert to Islam. The case has drawn attention to threats faced by Christians and converts in Libya, Egypt and beyond.

Global Christians Network·Nov 10, 2026

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Countries where it costs the most to follow Jesus. Open Doors World Watch List 2026.

  1. 1North Korea
  2. 2Somalia
  3. 3Yemen
  4. 4Sudan
  5. 5Eritrea90
  6. 6Syria90

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388M+Christians facing high levels of persecution and discriminationSource: Open Doors International (World Watch Research), 2024–2025
28.8%Share of the world’s population that is Christian, 2020Source: Pew Research Center, 2020
301Public church listingsParticipating churches (joined GCN): 0. Includes churches listed from public sources. Only churches that joined GCN themselves are counted as participating, shown separately. Not the number of churches in the world.Source: From this network’s own records
FijiTanzaniaW. SaharaCanadaUnited StatesKazakhstan: Rank 45Uzbekistan: Rank 25Papua New GuineaIndonesiaArgentinaChileDR Congo: Rank 29Somalia: Rank 2KenyaSudan: Rank 4Chad: Rank 48HaitiDominican Rep.RussiaBahamasFalkland Is.NorwayGreenlandFr. S. Antarctic LandsTimor-LesteSouth AfricaLesothoMexico: Rank 30UruguayBrazilBoliviaPeruColombia: Rank 47PanamaCosta RicaNicaragua: Rank 32HondurasEl SalvadorGuatemalaBelizeVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameFranceEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCuba: Rank 24ZimbabweBotswanaNamibiaSenegalMali: Rank 15Mauritania: Rank 21BeninNiger: Rank 26Nigeria: Rank 7Cameroon: Rank 37TogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaGuinea-BissauLiberiaSierra LeoneBurkina Faso: Rank 16Central African Rep.: Rank 22CongoGabonEq. GuineaZambiaMalawiMozambique: Rank 39eSwatiniAngolaBurundiIsraelLebanonMadagascarPalestinian TerritoriesGambiaTunisia: Rank 31Algeria: Rank 20Jordan: Rank 49United Arab EmiratesQatar: Rank 44KuwaitIraq: Rank 18Oman: Rank 38VanuatuCambodiaThailandLaos: Rank 28Myanmar: Rank 14VietnamNorth Korea: Rank 1South KoreaMongoliaIndia: Rank 12Bangladesh: Rank 33Bhutan: Rank 34Nepal: Rank 46Pakistan: Rank 8Afghanistan: Rank 11Tajikistan: Rank 27Kyrgyzstan: Rank 40Turkmenistan: Rank 35Iran: Rank 10Syria: Rank 6ArmeniaSwedenBelarusUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryMoldovaRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceTurkey: Rank 41AlbaniaCroatiaSwitzerlandLuxembourgBelgiumNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.New ZealandAustraliaSri LankaChina: Rank 17TaiwanItalyDenmarkUnited KingdomIcelandAzerbaijanGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaBrunei: Rank 50SloveniaFinlandSlovakiaCzechiaEritrea: Rank 5JapanParaguayYemen: Rank 3Saudi Arabia: Rank 13AntarcticaN. CyprusCyprusMorocco: Rank 23Egypt: Rank 42Libya: Rank 9Ethiopia: Rank 36DjiboutiSomalilandUgandaRwandaBosnia and Herz.MacedoniaSerbiaMontenegroKosovoTrinidad and TobagoS. Sudan
  • Ranks 1–15 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2026
  • Ranks 16–50
  • Not in the Top 50, or no data

Ranks come from Open Doors, an advocacy organization. A rank is a pressure score, not a count of incidents and not a judgment on any religion or people.

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Persecution and prayer
RankCountryScore
1North KoreaNot stated in the source text
2SomaliaNot stated in the source text
3YemenNot stated in the source text
4SudanNot stated in the source text
5Eritrea90
6Syria90
7Nigeria89
8PakistanNot stated in the source text
9LibyaNot stated in the source text
10IranNot stated in the source text
11AfghanistanNot stated in the source text
12IndiaNot stated in the source text
13Saudi ArabiaNot stated in the source text
14MyanmarNot stated in the source text
15MaliNot stated in the source text
16Burkina Faso80
17China79
18IraqNot stated in the source text
19MaldivesNot stated in the source text
20Algeria77
21MauritaniaNot stated in the source text
22Central African Rep.Not stated in the source text
23MoroccoNot stated in the source text
24CubaNot stated in the source text
25UzbekistanNot stated in the source text
26NigerNot stated in the source text
27TajikistanNot stated in the source text
28LaosNot stated in the source text
29DR Congo72
30MexicoNot stated in the source text
31TunisiaNot stated in the source text
32NicaraguaNot stated in the source text
33BangladeshNot stated in the source text
34BhutanNot stated in the source text
35TurkmenistanNot stated in the source text
36Ethiopia70
37CameroonNot stated in the source text
38OmanNot stated in the source text
39MozambiqueNot stated in the source text
40KyrgyzstanNot stated in the source text
41TurkeyNot stated in the source text
42EgyptNot stated in the source text
43ComorosNot stated in the source text
44QatarNot stated in the source text
45KazakhstanNot stated in the source text
46NepalNot stated in the source text
47ColombiaNot stated in the source text
48ChadNot stated in the source text
49JordanNot stated in the source text
50BruneiNot stated in the source text

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