Seven Christians — six of them pastors — were sentenced to “rigorous” imprisonment after being convicted on false charges of violating an anticonversion law in India.
A young pastor was killed in Uganda after speaking on radio, and in a debate during which two women put faith in Jesus Christ, sources reported.
Rebel militants, in the span of eight days, killed a pastor and an undetermined number of Christians and abducted another pastor and church leader.
A Pakistani pastor living in the United States has been accused of blasphemy, which caused as many as 40 Christian families in his native village to flee July 3 in fear of mob violence.
The convictions of three men sentenced to death in the fiery 2014 slayings of a Christian couple in Pakistan were overturned in July.
A plan to construct a Christian church in one of Indonesia’s provinces has met with protest more than once.
A senate committee probing 333 blasphemy cases in four Pakistani provinces found recently that most of the accusations during the last five years were false.
Thirteen Christians in India required hospital treatment for wounds from an assault, for which nine tribal individuals were arrested but granted bail two weeks later.
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