India’s Catholic bishops this week strongly condemned law enforcement for failing to prosecute a state legislator who publicly reportedly offered up to $12,663 USD (1.1 million rupees) for violent attacks on Christian leaders.
Five Christians were slain and three others wounded July 11 in an attack upon a Nigerian church.
Even though an Indonesian church has been granted the appropriate construction permit, hundreds protested at the site, saying they were not allowed a voice in the planning process.
A court order to form a government inquiry commission to investigate misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws is hailed by attorneys for the accused as a “huge ray of hope.”
Nigerian Christians, who face escalating persecution in their country, devoted a special time in July for prayer.
Leaders of a church in Khartoum North, Sudan, received no prior notice before authorities razed the building this month, according to sources.
A man who lived nearby raped a married Christian woman at gunpoint after she refused his repeated demands for her to convert and to marry him, a source said.
A Baptist pastor and a congregant were gunned down and a woman kidnapped July 7 in Nigeria during a church’s evening worship time.
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