The governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria, met with church leaders after the pace of terrorist killings since September increased in a Christian area, including 25 people slain in the first two weeks of January, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen and other attackers reportedly kidnapped a pastor and three other Christians on Saturday (Jan. 13) in central Nigeria, sources said.
A Sudanese Christian 85 miles southeast of Khartoum has succumbed to his injuries after militants from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces assaulted him, Morning Star News reported.
Police in Pakistan refused to file charges in the case of a Christian mother who lost her unborn child in a Muslim co-worker’s attempt to rape her, Morning Star News reported.
“I heard the attackers saying that, ‘The Christians will not celebrate the birth of Issa [Jesus] — we have to teach a lesson to these infidels for refusing our religion,’” a young woman who escaped the attack told Morning Star News.
A pastor convicted for handing out gospel tracts fears that the precedent of his case will result in other Christians being wrongfully imprisoned.
A 20-year-old Pakistani Christian man was slain Nov. 9 in an attack that sources say was religiously motivated.
A Ugandan woman suffered serious burns when her husband set her on fire for becoming a Christian.
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