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.
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.
