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THE THIRD PROLIFE BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA THIS YEAR!

West Australian politician Maryka Groenewald has just announced the Born Equal (Care and Protection) Bill 2026.  It is  known that  31 West Australian newborns have survived their abortion and been left to die! – and the Born Equal Bill is the first legislative attempt to provide them with care and protection after birth. This is now the third pro-life bill to be introduced in Australia this year! In 2024 two pro-life bills were introduced but in the year before that, the number was zero. Australia is  yet to pass the first pro-life law, but it is encouraging to see the growing momentum in the pro-life movement.

IN WAR-TORN SUDAN, CHRISTIAN MEDICAL TEAMS STEP IN WHERE HOSPITALS CAN’T
Sudan – Missionary Network News (MNN) — Paramilitary fighters made strategic gains in Sudan this week while slaughtering more than 100 people – two-thirds of them children – at a kindergarten. Drone attacks targeted first responders as they tried to move victims to a nearby hospital. Two years of civil war have left close to 80 percent of Sudan’s health facilities useless. So-called “citizen-led clinics” are filling the void.
Sudanese church planters recently partnered with Christian doctors, nurses, and pharmacists from South Sudan to hold several citizen-led clinics in displacement camps. “They went to 12 pop-up clinics and 10 camps in four locations,” a Gospel worker we’ll call John says. “In total, we did 104 days of clinics, and we were able to see 7,000 people. The majority of this last medical outreach was with pediatric medicines, and we’ve been able to see about 3,500 children.”  
It’s the latest edition of a coalition formed earlier this year between Sudanese church planters, U.S. suppliers who provide donated medications, and medical professionals from South Sudan. Medical ministry among Sudanese refugees is one of the most powerful ways God’s love is made visible. In refugee camps on South Sudan’s border with Sudan, access to basic healthcare is often limited or nonexistent. Through our partnership in Movement of Medicine, we are blessed to step into these gaps, offering not just physical healing but also dignity, comfort, and the hope of the Gospel. A doctor dressing wounds or treating a fever may also be the one who listens, prays, and brings some healing to a war-torn heart. In such settings, the power of medical ministry is not merely in the medicine, but in the message that every life is valued by God. As prayers are answered through healing hands and compassionate presence, the Gospel is preached not only in words but in action.

RUSSIA CONTINUES CRACKDOWN ON UNREGISTERED BAPTIST CHURCHES
Russian courts banned three more Baptist churches in October for failing to register with the government, according to the religious freedom watchdog Forum 18. These churches, located in the southern region of Krasnodar, are part of the Council of Churches Baptists, which has already seen seven other congregations banned. “In Russia, the ‘witch hunt’ is continuing,” Russian attorney Anatoly Pchelintsev said. “I have a question for the deputies who seem so quick to pass prohibitive and punitive laws: What’s stopping them from providing clarity and certainty in legislation so that believers are not harassed?”
It is unclear why officials have specifically targeted congregations of the Council of Churches Baptists since 2024. However, it may relate to the numerous cases of “unlawful missionary activity” in the Krasnodar region. When a church is banned by court order, it is prohibited from meeting not only at its usual location but anywhere within the city or district. The reason these churches choose not to register lies in their foundational purpose. The Council of Churches Baptists was established during the Cold War to resist Soviet control over its congregations, unlike registered churches, which were strictly regulated by the state. Although the Council continued its activities after the fall of the Soviet Union and now meets openly, they do so only in private homes or on private land. [Source: Persecution.org]

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES’ CALL FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION AS PERSECUTION INCREASES
INDIA: Due to a sharp increase in violence against Christians in India, several advocacy organizations have called for a national convention of Christians this month to raise concerns about Christian persecution to the government. On an early November morning, several Christian villagers in the Rohtak district of Haryana were forced to burn their Bibles publicly as a Hindu nationalist terrorized and abused them, forcing the believers to denounce their faith while continuing to insult and threaten them. This is just one example of the type of violence many Christians in India are facing today.
While violence and persecution against Christians in India have been an ongoing issue for decades, there has been a recent sharp increase in violent incidents. According to a report released on Nov. 4 from a group of Christian rights activists at the Press Club of India, there has been a 500% increase in hate crimes against Christians in India since 2014. In the last 10 years, the reported incidents of violence against Christians in India jumped from 139 to 834, with the total number of documented incidents affecting almost 5,000 families in the last decade.
The convention held to address these concerns will occur on Nov. 29 and is titled “Towards a Self-Reliant, Progressive, and United India”. Organizers hope to foster dialogue in their communities to raise awareness about concerns of violence. “This is not a political movement, but a constitutional dialogue among Indian citizens from the Christian faith, exercising their democratic rights,” one organizer stated. “The systematic and egregious violence and hostility, coupled with police inaction and lack of access of justice, requires solutions.” According to Radio Veritas Asia, 22 members of the Indian parliament across different parties have pledged their support for the upcoming national convention, which will occur during the parliamentary session that runs from Nov. 24 to Dec. 25. The goal of the national convention is to reaffirm the constitutional rights of every Indian citizen, regardless of his or her religion. [SOURCE:  Persecution.org]

OPERATION BLESSING BRINGS URGENT HELP AFTER DISASTERS IN PHILIPPINES
The Philippines is facing a large-scale humanitarian crisis after a powerful earthquake and two super typhoons struck just weeks apart.  Over the past month, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the Central Philippines and Typhoon Kalmaegi have left millions reeling. Then, days later, Category 5 Typhoon Fungwong slammed the main island of Luzon, leaving its own trail of destruction. The back-to-back disasters killed over 200 people, Operation Blessing, an International faith-based humanitarian organization, operating in more than 65 countries, were among the first to reach survivors of both the earthquake and the super typhoons. Water stations and filtration systems have been installed to ensure clean, safe water,  food bags and hygiene kits were delivered to affected families, especially in remote areas. Operation Blessing also provided medical missions in the affected areas, and continues to deploy its disaster relief teams, working tirelessly to reach communities cut off by damaged roads and bridges. [Source: CBN News]

SUDANESE CHRISTIAN FAMILY THREATENED WITH DEATH IN UGANDA
Morning Star News – A Sudanese Christian family in Uganda is living in fear after Muslim extremists from Sudan and Somalia threatened to kill them. Safaa Abdalla Yousif, who fled her native Sudan to Uganda due to conflict and religious persecution in 2016, on Tuesday (Nov. 19) received a text message from an anonymous number threatening to kill her family. “You are infidel because you left Islam, your blood will be shed,” the text read in Arabic, she said.
Yousif has often shared her faith with Muslims in the country. A Muslim had called her previously and, as they discussed the Quran, became angry, saying in Sudanese Arabic that he wished he had burned her vehicle on a prior occasion in Sudan “so that we get rid of you and can get some rest,” she said.
Muslims from Somalia have also threatened her. Yousif said she once gave discipleship classes to new converts, and a Somali Muslim who had put his faith in Christ was kidnapped and tortured by his co-religionists from Somalia and Sudan. “He was sent back to warn us to close the church and stop discipleship classes,” she said. “He said, ‘If you don’t stop the ministry and close the church, they will kill you because you are now known to them very well.’” Yousif said she has received death threats five times since 2020. Before last week’s threat, Muslim extremists had threatened her a month ago, she said. Her husband was also attacked in October 2019 by four suspected Somali assailants who struck him with a blunt object and stabbed him in the head, according to a Kampala police report.
The mother of a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl said the lives of her family were in great danger as they feared the Muslim extremists were monitoring their movements. The family now has no option but to leave the area and search for a safer location, she said. They had moved to their current area due to previous threats.  “My situation is dangerous, but I just put the Lord in front of me,” Yousif said.
The threats on Yousif’s family in Uganda, were the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that have been documented. Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

– compiled by Guido Kettniss