Pastors beaten in custody after arrests in India
Five of six pastors jailed in central-eastern India on July 20 after false allegations of forcible conversion were assaulted in custody so severely they have laceration scars, sources said.
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Christian site attacked in Indonesia, hurting two children
As police officers looked on, a group of Muslims on Sunday (July 27) stormed a prayer house in Indonesia, injuring two children, sources said.
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Lawmaker in India offers reward for attacking Christians
India’s Catholic bishops this week strongly condemned law enforcement for failing to prosecute a state legislator who publicly offered up to $12,663 USD (1.1 million rupees) for violent attacks on Christian leaders.
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Pastors and other Christians brutalized in Odisha state, India
The father of one of 20 pastors ambushed in eastern India last month was soaked in blood from the attack as he told his son, “I don’t think I will make it. I just want you to know that I will be with my Maker, and you should not worry for me.”
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Muslim relatives of new Christian break into home to kill him
Muslim relatives of a Christian convert in eastern Uganda on Friday (July 18) forced their way into his locked home and killed him, sources said. As he had done since accepting Christ in April, Kasajja Abdul Maliki of Kaliro village, Kaliro District had locked himself in his house during Friday mosque service to pray and study the Bible when his Muslim relatives burst in and stabbed him to death, his niece said. He was 37.
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Protests erupt over church construction in Indonesia despite permits
Hundreds of Muslims in Indonesia on July 5 protested the construction of a church building in West Java Province, local media reported.
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Sudan destroys church building in Khartoum North
Authorities in Sudan on July 8 demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, sources said. With no prior warning, bulldozers and trucked accompanied by police and armed forces personnel arrived at the compound of the Pentecostal Church in the El-Haj Yousif area of East Nile District at noon and began demolishing the church building, sources told local media.
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Muslims who disrupted Christian retreat in Indonesia prosecuted
Despite an agreement Christians in Indonesia signed to refrain from taking legal action against a Muslim group that attacked their retreat site, the West Java governor has urged legal action against the assailants, sources said.
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Church members in India afraid to attend worship after assault
Hindu extremists in central India on June 8 ransacked a church’s worship building, burned Bibles and assaulted every member, causing one to lose consciousness, sources said.
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Fate of Christian refugees India cast into sea still unknown
Relatives of ethnic Rohingya Christian refugees cast into the sea by India’s navy have yet to hear from them nearly two months after the cast-offs swam ashore to their native Myanmar (Burma).
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Muslim mob disrupts Christian retreat in Indonesia
As police and soldiers looked on, about 200 Muslims on Friday (June 27) stormed a Christian youth retreat at a home in Indonesia, driving out participants and damaging property, sources said.
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Mother in Somalia loses husband, home for accepting Christ
A mother of three children in Somalia is struggling to survive after her Muslim relatives drove her from their home and threatened to kill her for accepting Christ, she said.
