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Because we believe the news and the response belong together, we pair the reporting with prayer: an original prayer of intercession published every day for believers in a specific place, and scripture-rooted prayers attached to many of the dispatches themselves.

From time to time we also write in our own voice — editorials, analysis, and commentary that step back from the day's headlines to consider what they mean for the church. These are written by people who have served on the ground in the regions we cover and by contributors whose combined experience in missions and religious-freedom work spans more than a century. When we write, the byline is ours; we never blur the line between our own writing and the reporting we aggregate.

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