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.
Even though Christians do not plan to prosecute the mob that drove them out of a retreat, the provincial governor says he will pursue legal action.
The slaughtering of Christians in Nigeria has recently claimed more than 164 lives and brought fear that another massacre will happen.
Fifteen Christian refugees from Myanmar were put out to sea eight weeks ago by India’s navy and their fate remains unknown.
