A pastor came under pressure from local Muslims in Indonesia on Christmas Eve to announce that Christmas services were cancelled even though his church had just won approval to hold the celebrations, sources said.
Muslim extremists in Uganda killed an evangelist after a public Christian-Muslim dialogue on Dec. 12, sources said.
A Hindu extremist mob in northern India last month assaulted two Christian couples and an attorney for several hours, accusing them of forced conversion, sources said.
As police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from attending a Christmas service, according to local media.
Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia are demanding closure of a Catholic church, claiming that its renovations for Christmas lack permission, sources said.
An attack by young Islamists on a church building in Indonesia led to a melee that threatened to involve Christian militias in defense, sources said.
A medical doctor in Sudan was jailed from Sunday to Wednesday evening (Dec. 10) after officials learned he was a Christian, sources said.
A Christian woman in India jailed for 86 days on false accusations of fraudulent conversion was diagnosed with cancer in October, sources said.
Life seemed to be looking better for a refugee from Sudan who had fled to Ethiopia and South Sudan, put his faith in Christ, and then found a job at his uncle’s business in Uganda.
A Sudanese Christian family in Uganda is living in fear after Muslim extremists from Sudan and Somalia threatened to kill them.
India’s Supreme Court on Monday (Nov. 17) issued notice to the Rajasthan government regarding a petition challenging the state’s “anti-conversion” law, which allows officials to demolish homes and seize property based on mere allegations of forcible conversion.
Five Christians were killed and 44 others injured on Nov. 4 after an Islamist leader incited Muslims to attack Christians over pork sales near a mosque in Yumbe, northern Uganda, sources said.
