Two Nigerian clergymen have been abducted, and recent video from their captors shows them pleading for their lives. Both men are being held for ransom because of their Christian faith.
Despite no direct evidence, a Christian man in Pakistan was sentenced to death June 29 on an accusation of blasphemy.
Uganda — though their laws permit freedom of religion — has become increasingly hostile to Christians, with one evangelist murdered and two others flogged by Muslim extremists within the last two months.
Three suicide bombings in Nigeria killed more than 30 people in late June.
Turkey’s high court decided June 7 that the government’s expulsion of nine foreign Christians did not violate the individuals’ rights.
The widow of a Christian man killed for his faith in India has fled the village to save her life.
Eight more people have been slain in Nigeria and two others kidnapped in the relentless persecution of Christians that has made the country the world’s most deadly place for believers.
A Catholic factory worker was tortured to death in Pakistan, and five Christian sanitation workers died of noxious gases for lack of protective gear.
