Bent on suppressing Christianity in Iran, Islamic courts handed down six times more prison time to persecuted Christians in 2024 than the previous year, according to advocacy group Article 18.
A Christian woman in central India suffered a miscarriage this month after tribal relatives who practice traditional religion beat and strangled her, sources said.
The Muslim family of a young man in Sudan’s Darfur Region has disowned him and compelled his wife to divorce him because he converted to Christianity, an area source said.
Authorities prevented Christians internally displaced by war in Sudan from celebrating Christmas in a park where they had taken refuge, sources said.
Hindu extremists in eastern India on Dec. 26 stripped and beat a tribal Christian woman, tying her to a tree after she redressed and continuing to torture her till she lost consciousness, sources said.
Muslims in Indonesia said they will sue Catholic leaders to prevent completion of a church building after months of construction, sources said.
A Muslim couple and their adult son who gave their lives to Christ in November were burned to death on Dec. 26 in eastern Uganda, sources said.
Militants of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a church prayer service in Sudan’s Al Jazirah state on Monday (Dec. 30), wounding 14 Christians, sources said.
Islamic extremists on Dec. 16 killed a Christian father of three children who had fled his home in eastern Uganda due to death threats from Muslim relatives, sources said.
Another church building was targeted in Sudan on Friday (Dec. 20) in an air strike by the Sudanese Air Force (SAF) that also destroyed at least five houses of civilians, the church pastor said.
A Sudanese refugee in South Sudan who suffered a knife attack by her Muslim husband four months ago for converting to Christianity faces daily pressure to renounce her faith, sources said.
A mother of two young children in Somalia had to leave them this week after her husband seriously injured her upon learning that she had left Islam for Christianity, she said.
