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Fourth Christian killed in India in less than two months
Pastor Munshi Devu Tado was leading a worship service on his property for about 15 village families from 4pm to 6pm when three armed men and three women escorted him away
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Christians at greater risk of arrest after Iran passes new law
Legislation passed by parliament in Iran could make it easier to arrest and imprison Christians and other religious minorities, rights advocates said.
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Hopes fade for study of Christianity in Sudan
Hopes that the transitional government in Sudan would allow Christianity as a school subject alongside Islam wilted when officials omitted it from an academic schedule released last week, sources said.
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Christian families receive death threats in India
Animists in central India last week told five Christian families they would lose their harvest lands unless they returned to their tribal religion and beat them when they refused, sources said.
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12 Christians killed and couple kidnapped from church during wedding in Nigeria
Several others were also reportedly abducted in the attack in Niger state.
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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.
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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.
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Two young Christian women killed in Nigeria
Both girls were reportedly secondary school pupils
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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