World Watch Monitor

• CAR Church leaders call again for aid

  Church leaders in the Central African Republic have reiterated their opposition to the ongoing violence in the country and demanded more troops on the ground.

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  Life for Christians around the world 'has deteriorated'

  Freedom of religion and belief is an issue "whose time has come", the vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said yesterday.

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  'Ugly' charges against Turkish pastor dropped

  Prosecutor rules that accusations contained no solid, 'believable' evidence

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  Indonesian churches still closed after protests

  West Java churches shut since December by order of local officials

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  Female church workers raped and killed in South Sudan

  Reports of a horrific attack on female church workers, several of whom were elderly, in the South Sudanese town of Bor

• Pastor killed amid tensions in Mombasa

  An assistant pastor at a church in Mombasa, Kenya was killed on February 2 while guarding his church during the night.

• Algeria: Christian family refused permission to bury their son in public cemetery

  A Christian family in Algeria has been refused permission to bury their son in the local public cemetery because he was not a Muslim.

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  Priest says Egypt church attack was retribution by Muslim Brotherhood supporters

  Around 70 churches were attacked in Egypt last summer following the ousting of Mohamed Morsi

• Sri Lanka: Christians protest after attacks by Buddhist extremists

  More than 2,000 Christians gathered in Colombo on Sunday to protest against a perceived lack of religious freedom in Sri Lanka, following recent attacks on Christian places of worship by Buddhist extremists.

• Tunisian constitution finds no place for Sharia

  Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly is close to passing a new constitution which rejects Islam as the "main source of law"

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  Central African Republic conflict 'not religious at all'

  The man chosen to lead what he says is 51% of the population of the Central African Republic (CAR), its Protestants, says that the conflict in the country has nothing to do with religion.

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  Christians in northern Mali experiencing insecurity 'in all aspects of life'

  Christians in a city in northern Mali, already forced to hold services in a school classroom because their church was looted and not ready to host meetings, had a bomb scare on Sunday.