Three Sudanese Christians were arrested in January after one of them was found with a Bible by the Sudan Armed Forces. While jailed, the trio was tortured before being released in March.
Three complaints of blasphemy have been lodged against an Indonesian Christian pastor for statements in a sermon posted online.
More than 34 Nigerian Christians were slain for their faith in April, continuing a pattern that has made the country the world’s most deadly place to be a follower of Jesus.
Arson is suspected in a March 30 church fire in Pakistan that occurred after an individual threatened to prevent the observance of Christ’s resurrection.
Pastor Ramesh Ahirwar and wife Sakshi Ahirwar say they were falsely accused in a March conviction of forcible conversion in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Ul Qamar family is warned by armed invaders to stop pursuing the case against their son’s suspected murderer.
Saidu Yakubu, alleged leader of a kidnapping gang that set a fire which destroyed a Nigerian church rectory and killed a seminary student, has been taken into custody.
Antar Abbas Abu Hidia, general secretary of the Sudanese Church of Christ, apprehended by Rapid Support Forces and incarcerated in Soba Prison in Khartoum, Sudan.
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