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Hindu radicals destroy church in India, injuring pastor

Attacks and harassment of a house church in southern India have decimated the 40-member congregation and left the pastor injured and demoralized.
Three churches attacked by suspected jihadists in Sudan

Temporary worship structures in southeastern Sudan were set ablaze on January 16, three weeks after the buildings they had replaced were burned down, sources said.
Two young Christian women killed in Nigeria

Both girls were reportedly secondary school pupils
13 Christians killed, four seminarians kidnapped in Nigeria

Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria on January 8, the same day four students were kidnapped from a Catholic seminary in Kaduna state.
Christmas celebrations mark progress of religious freedom in Sudan

In stark contrast to his predecessor, Sudan's new minister of religious affairs last week attended a long-persecuted church's Christmas service.
Hardline animists attack church and threaten to kill Christians in eastern India

Tribal animists in eastern India earlier this month surrounded a church building with axes, threatened to kill Christians within and later burned down the thatched-roof structure, sources said.
Rebels in Burma who closed more than 100 churches allow 51 to re-open

Ethnic Wa rebels of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) this week announced they had permitted 51 Baptist churches to reopen in northern Shan state after investigating the congregations and their activities for 14 months.
11 Christians killed by militants in Kenya

Suspected members of Somali Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab intercepted a bus in northern Kenya on December 6, separated out those who were not local ethnic Somali Muslims and executed them, sources said.
Court orders release of five Christians jailed for 11 years for a murder they didn't commit

After spending 11 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit, five Christians in eastern India were finally ordered to be freed on November 26, sources said.
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill two Christians in Nigeria

Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria early on November 14 hacked an 87-year-old Christian to death by machete and killed another by gunshot, an area resident said.
Islamic State claims responsibility for killing of priest and his father in Syria

Islamic State (IS) militants claimed responsibility for killing an Armenian Catholic priest and his father on Monday in eastern Syria, where they had traveled from their home in a northeastern town hit by Turkish air strikes and terrorist bombs.
Sudan says it will return confiscated property to Christians

Minister of Religious Affairs Nasr al-Din Mufreh said that Christians and people of other beliefs are free to practice their faith in Sudan.