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According to sources, Muslim youths looking for a Christian woman accused of blaspheming the prophet of Islam set homes and shops ablaze on Friday (May 20) in northeast Nigeria.

A Christian student stoned to death at a college in northwest Nigeria on Thursday (May 12) was falsely accused of blaspheming the prophet of Islam because she had refused to date a Muslim, sources said.

Upset over conversions to Christianity, hardline Muslims in an area of eastern Uganda this month sprayed a newly Christian family with acid and beat a former mosque leader, sources said.

Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut, sources said.

Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday, February 25, killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents said.

Four Christians were killed and 22 girls kidnapped in Islamic extremist attacks on Thursday (Jan. 20) and Jan. 14 in the Chibok area of Borno state, Nigeria, sources said.

Violence clashes near Jerusalem between Jewish extremists, Palestinians and police have led to the injury of more than 100 people.