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A pastor in Sri Lanka was granted bail on Wednesday after being jailed since Dec. 1 on a charge of “outraging religious feelings” for comments in a sermon that appeared online, sources said.
Before Sawuba Naigaga succumbed to injuries her 25-year-old son inflicted on her in Uganda this month, she described the assault to a friend from her hospital bed.
Islamic terrorists on Dec. 19 killed 10 Christians in western Uganda, sources said.
Two evangelists in eastern Uganda will spend Christmas in jail, charged under a blasphemy law after Muslims upset by their street preaching beat them and summoned police, sources said.
With an increase in blasphemy cases in Indonesia and arrests based on Islamic fatwas and mob pressure, rights advocates are calling for laws to be amended or ended.
A court in Pakistan granted bail to a Christian falsely charged with blasphemy, but he and his family have separated and gone into hiding amid threats to their lives, sources said.
A funeral was held in southwest Nigeria on Saturday for a pastor’s wife shot to death in Taraba state a week earlier, sources said.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Friday attacked villages in Taraba state, Nigeria, killing at least 10 Christians, sources said.
Two Christians in eastern Uganda were hospitalized after hardline Muslims beat them for their presentation at a religious dialogue, one of the victims said.
The father of a 20-year-old Christian who was gunned down in Pakistan this month said the confessed killer was driven by a strong hatred for Christians and Jews.
