Open Doors UK

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  Drawn to gangs in her teen rebellion, Colombian girl finds her true self in new faith

  "If my behaviour with my parents was bad, my behaviour with God was even worse," recalls 16-year-old Ines.

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  The Sri Lanka bombings two years on

  Two years ago on 21 April, Christians in Sri Lanka were celebrating Easter Sunday when the country was rocked by some of the deadliest attacks on Christian targets in years.

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  Chibok: 7 years of agony for the parents of 111 kidnapped schoolgirls

  After seven years, 111 of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 are still missing.

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  For Mosul's Christians, it's been another Christmas away from home

  This is the seventh Christmas that 11-year-old Fakhri is celebrating away from home, his church and his friends. Fakhri and many other children who fled Mosul, Iraq, with their families years ago, barely remember what their homes looked like.

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  Armenians say goodbye to their churches in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Armenians in the region fear that their ancestral Christian heritage is now threatened under Azerbaijan's control.

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  The heavy price paid by Christians who stand up to Colombia's powerful drug cartels

  Colombia is 93 per cent Christian but your faith can get you killed if you stand up to the increasingly powerful drug cartels.

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  'The world is becoming more authoritarian and Christians are paying the price,' says Open Doors speaker

  "The Covid-19 emergency has allowed populist and authoritarian heads of state to tighten their grip on power and crush dissenting voices," says Open Doors' Ron Boyd-MacMillan.

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  After ISIS tried to wipe them out, Christians in Iraq are rising again

  "We had to start again from zero, but we did it because we had hope."

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  Meeting Jesus in a warzone

  "Both of us were crying, we were so afraid. But then Jesus appeared to me. He said to me: 'Don't be afraid.'"

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  'God didn't leave us,' says pastor who chose to stay in war-torn Syria

  "My people should know that there is a pastor in Qamishli helping the people in need," says Pastor George Moushi, who has stayed in Syria despite years of war and now coronavirus.

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  In Myanmar, a Christian mother and wife blazes a trail for other women in her community despite opposition

  "Previously I thought women should not engage in any work outside the house. This is a common perspective in the minds of women here."

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  In Iraq, a Christian mother's bags are always packed in case she must flee ISIS again

  "I remember being so anxious," said Dalia, a mother of three. "We left our house that we had spent years building and ran into the unknown, with not much more than the clothes on our back."