After spending a decade in prison for a murder they did not commit, five Christians have been acquitted in India.
After spending a decade in prison for a murder they did not commit, five Christians have been acquitted in India.
In October a 14-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam and married off to a Muslim man in Pakistan. Her kidnapping is only just making media coverage as her parents beg for help.
On November 23, seven plainclothes Egyptian police officers showed up at activist Ramy Kamel's house and confiscated many of his belongings including books, his laptop, his phone, and a digital camera. The following day, the Coptic activist known for advocating for Egypt's urban poor and rural peasants was charged with joining and financing a terrorist group and disrupting public peace.
Animists in central India are enlisting Maoist militants to kill Christians who refuse to recant their faith.
The Chinese Communist Party is censoring what phone owners say via text. Phrases like "Almighty God" are considered "sensitive" and could result in the loss of the phone service.
A Chinese church elder has been sentenced to four years in prison for having Christian literature.
Fourteen people were killed on Sunday in Burkina Faso when armed men stormed a church and opened fire.
Led by Hindu extremists in Udham Singh Nagar District in Uttarakhand state, a mob of 60 to 70 mainly female villagers assaulted 28-year-old pastor Sawan Pol’s father, mother, wife and 10-year-old brother in Bagwala village, near the city of Rudrapur, sources said. The pastor’s wife was holding their 6-month-old son during the assault.
The Supreme Court of India issued a decision ordering bail for the five Christians from Odisha (formerly Orissa) state falsely accused of killing Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, whose death on Aug. 23, 2008 in Kandhamal District touched off anti-Christian attacks that killed 120 people, destroyed nearly 6,000 homes and displaced 55,000 Christians.
Fourteen Christians were killed in Nigeria by Fulani herdsman earlier this month. The extremists attacked the Christians in the middle of the night with machetes.
