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Not even a judge’s reprimand of police spared an impoverished pastor in India from being jailed on baseless claims of fraudulent conversion, one of the latest examples of how Hindu extremists misuse “anti-conversion” laws.
Fulani herdsmen on Friday killed 15 Christians in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.
Muslim extremists beat a 33-year-old evangelist to death for leading Muslims to faith in Christ at an event in eastern Uganda, sources said.
Gunmen early Wednesday kidnapped a pastor and two other Christians in Jos East County, Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday killed 10 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, where 27 others were slain in August, sources said.
Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said.
Assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night in a failed kidnapping attempt, sources said.
A machete-wielding Muslim threatened to kill members of a house church in Indonesia as he and family members on Aug. 29 broke up a worship service, sources said.
A pastor was shot and wounded by hardline Muslims on Sunday evening in Jaranwala, Pakistan, a week after Islamist slogans were written on the walls of his church building, sources said.
Church and rights leaders in Pakistan are demanding an investigation into anti-Christian rioting in Jaranwala amid illegal arrests of area Christians and a police claim of a “foreign conspiracy” to create religious strife, sources said.
