North Cyprus: Prayer for upcoming hearing 

On 23 March Ryan Keating is scheduled to appear in Iskele District Court on charges of illegally importing literature – the result of a joint police and customs raid on his home in January 2021 in which personal Bibles and Christian books were seized. Customs...

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Israel: Court hearing for Messianic ministry 

Israel: Court hearing for Messianic ministry 

On 9 March an initial court hearing took place in Ashkelon after the Sderot Municipality opened a case against City of Life Ministries (CLM) and pastor Michael Beener for alleged zoning regulation violations. The judge recognised this case is the only example of...

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Israel: Ongoing pressure on migrant churches 

Israel: Ongoing pressure on migrant churches 

The Evangelical Alliance in Israel requests prayer after the city of Tel Aviv broke its promise to relocate churches and pressured landlords to evict the congregations they claimed violated zoning requirements as “houses of prayer.” In November 2020, Tel Aviv...

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Iran: Another Christian convert pardoned and released 

Iran: Another Christian convert pardoned and released 

On 4 March Milad Goodarzi was released from Karaj Central Prison. He is the seventh Christian convert known to have benefited from the general amnesty granted to prisoners for the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. In June 2021, Milad and two other converts...

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