Hindu extremists in eastern India on Dec. 26 stripped and beat a tribal Christian woman, tying her to a tree after she redressed and continuing to torture her till she lost consciousness, sources said.
Muslims in Indonesia said they will sue Catholic leaders to prevent completion of a church building after months of construction, sources said.
A Muslim couple and their adult son who gave their lives to Christ in November were burned to death on Dec. 26 in eastern Uganda, sources said.
Militants of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a church prayer service in Sudan’s Al Jazirah state on Monday (Dec. 30), wounding 14 Christians, sources said.
Islamic extremists on Dec. 16 killed a Christian father of three children who had fled his home in eastern Uganda due to death threats from Muslim relatives, sources said.
Another church building was targeted in Sudan on Friday (Dec. 20) in an air strike by the Sudanese Air Force (SAF) that also destroyed at least five houses of civilians, the church pastor said.
A Sudanese refugee in South Sudan who suffered a knife attack by her Muslim husband four months ago for converting to Christianity faces daily pressure to renounce her faith, sources said.
A mother of two young children in Somalia had to leave them this week after her husband seriously injured her upon learning that she had left Islam for Christianity, she said.
Muslims in Indonesia on Sunday (Dec. 8) prevented Christians from holding a Christmas service at a pastor’s home, sources said.
Muslims in a village in Indonesia stopped a church choir from rehearsing on Sunday evening (Dec. 1) for a Christmas service on the false premise that the Christians needed permission from community leaders, sources said.
Members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan severely wounded a Catholic bishop over the weekend (Nov. 30-Dec. 1), shortly after soldiers from the rival Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had harassed and robbed him, sources said.
Authorities in Indonesia are allowing two years of uncollected garbage to pile up next to a church building and a Catholic university, sources said.
