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From 1.5 Million to 300,000: Alarming Decline of Christians in the Middle East

Speakers at the sixth annual International Religious Freedom Summit on Monday warned that religious freedom is rapidly deteriorating across several Middle Eastern countries, urging the United States to take stronger action.

Trump Says ‘Religion Is Coming Back’ as He Defends Religious Liberty Record at National Prayer Breakfast
Donald Trump said “religion is coming back” in the United States while highlighting his administration’s record on religious liberty during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Says Faith-Based Recovery Groups Eligible for Federal Funding
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said faith-based addiction recovery programs meeting evidence-based standards will now be eligible for federal funding under the Trump administration.
Larry Lyon Named Ninth President of Truett McConnell University
Larry Lyon, senior vice president for business administration at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, has been selected to serve as the next president of Truett McConnell University in Cleveland.

Brownback Warns of Global Authoritarian Alliance Targeting Religious Freedom after IRF Summit

At a joint Feb. 4 hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Africa and Western Hemisphere subcommittees in Washington, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback warned that a growing alliance of authoritarian states now views religious freedom as a threat to their control.

Texas School District Investigates After Islamic Group Distributed Sharia-Promoting Materials on Campus
A North Texas school district says a breakdown in protocol allowed an outside Muslim outreach group to distribute Islamic literature to students at a public high school, prompting an internal investigation and staff discipline. The issue surfaced after a student at Wylie East High School suburb of Wylie shared a video on social media alleging that Islamic materials.
U.S. Deploys Military Team to Nigeria Amid Counterterrorism Response to Christian Persecution
The United States has sent a military team to Nigeria as part of an expanded effort to assist the country in combating Islamic State–linked terrorist groups amid escalating violence against Christians. A senior U.S. military commander told Reuters that the deployment was carried out with the consent of the Nigerian government.
Armenian Archbishop Warns From Prison That Church Is Under Threat, Appeals to U.S. Leaders at IRF Summit
Bagrat Galstanyan, an Armenian archbishop currently imprisoned, sent a letter to the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington warning that the Armenian Apostolic Church is facing an existential threat and urging U.S. Vice President JD Vance to intervene. The letter was transmitted by the Christian Solidarity International.