Interactive Persecution Map · September 2026 · Crossed Arrows International

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September, reconciled

The 87 main incidents comprise 70 Christian-related, 11 Jewish-related and six other-faith records. The latter include the approved Baha’i sentence-enforcement events. Inclusion does not by itself establish a religious motive.

Nigeria has 21 main records and India 17. These are counts within this source set, not measures of relative population risk or complete national prevalence. Select an incident for its underlying sources.

How the month was assembled

The complete consolidated review workbook replaces a simple weekly sum. Forty-three baseline incidents, 42 incident units from approved queue records, and two approved imprisonment events form the main total. Updates amend cases; existing held and excluded candidates remain out.

September is a calendar-month reconciliation. Earlier monthly editions used published weekly windows, so a direct month-to-month increase or decrease is not asserted.

Impact, with qualifications

Killed in main incidents	62
Separate security death	1
Wounded, cautious subtotal	19
Additional injury ambiguity	2
Abducted, attributed subtotal	45
State custody / questioning	52

The 62 deaths include 26 source-identified Christians, 24 in Christian contexts with individual faith unconfirmed, seven civilians of unestablished faith, four police and one Ahmadi victim. Source identification is not independent identity verification or proof of motive.

The wounded total is 21 if two Dekhali beatings with unclear injury documentation are included. The abduction subtotal includes an attributed 18-person report with an official verification caveat. Custody is a case-linked measure, not a current-prisoner census. These categories must not be added into a unique-person total.

Dates, fires and shared figures

San Diego, Matatu and Maizières-lès-Metz use September discovery dates; actual act dates remain unresolved. The three approved Placentia, Meadow Lake and Kilburn fire cases retain suspicious or undetermined-cause qualifications, including former-church status where applicable.

Rubung and Federe are two incidents sharing one combined two-death pool. Those deaths are counted once in the monthly subtotal, not assigned to each village. Unknown casualties remain unknown, not zero.

Geographic precision

Markers use settlement or administrative-area locators, not verified attack-site coordinates. Broad or ambiguous village records are explicitly marked as regional locators. A multi-place campaign still represents its approved incident unit; cluster numbers are records, not victim totals.

Basemap boundaries are cartographic context, not a position on sovereignty. Israel / Palestinian Territories is retained as one reporting-geography label. Gazetteer links appear in case details.

Filtered main incidents

Charts follow the filters and exclude the separate security record. Header figures always show the full reconciled month.

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By incident type

One display category per incident. Mixed impacts remain in the case details; a fire category does not mean confirmed arson.

By September window

Qualified dates and discovery dates are retained. These windows are not an independently verified daily chronology.