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Six Kenyan merchants killed by suspected militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab on Friday in the Somali border town of Dhobley were likely attacked for spreading Christianity, sources said.
A Christian couple in central India haven't seen their two young children for more than a month after an attack by followers of a traditional tribal religion drove them from their village for refusing to recant their faith.
Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda on killed a Christian for leading Muslims to faith in Christ, sources said.
The head of Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency said officials are focusing on protecting teenage children and women from Islamic radicalization as they have become the most targeted groups.
More than a month after the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered Pastor Keshab Raj Acharya to serve one year in prison under a law against proselytizing, he seeks to convert the sentence into a fine.
An Iranian Christian convert faces possible expulsion from Turkey and a three-year prison sentence on a charge of spreading “propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” according to religious freedom advocates.
A formerly Muslim couple in eastern Uganda, parents of four young children, were slashed to death on Feb. 2, two months after putting their faith in Christ, sources told Morning Star News.
Militants from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed one Christian on Jan. 20 and beat another unconscious on Jan. 22 in Omdurman, Sudan, sources said.
A Sudanese Christian 85 miles southeast of Khartoum has succumbed to his injuries after militants from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) assaulted him, sources said.
Islamic extremists killed a 75-year-old woman and her two grandchildren in western Uganda on Christmas Day, sources said.
