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After years of inaction, federal prosecutors in Argentina are pursuing criminal charges against perpetrators of religious persecution against an evangelical church in Rio Tercero, Cordoba.

Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind a rash of attacks on Christian communities in Plateau state, Nigeria last week that took 38 lives and displaced 5,000 people

A 14-year-old girl was killed and 33 others left wounded after terrorists from the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf bombed a passenger bus in the predominantly Christian city of Zamboanga.

Three men beat and raped a 19-year-old Catholic woman in Uganda last week, leaving her severely injured because her family left Islam.

"Pastor Singkeaw ignored the orders and continued spreading the Christian faith," said a source. "Actually, the church that he had been pastoring up to his death was founded by him in 2000 during the great religious persecution."

A court has ruled that committees the Sudanese government imposed on a North Khartoum church in order to enable Muslim investors to take it over were illegal.

Armed Hindu extremists threaten death for declining to renounce Christ.

Authorities in the Kasur District this week charged and jailed a Christian accused of blasphemy by Muslim business competitors, and police beat area Christians in their search for him, sources said.

Tensions grew on July 19 when members of the Hindu extremist Shiv Sena, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the village held a "homecoming" to Hinduism (Ghar Vapsi) in front of Pastor Pratap Singh's house.

Islamist groups are threatening the family and attorney of a young Christian man shot dead by Muslim in-laws who also wounded his wife over her decision to marry him and leave Islam, the attorney said.

An Egyptian Christian who was arrested earlier this month for alleged evangelizing of Muslims in suburban Cairo could be held indefinitely in prison on a false accusation of blasphemy, his lawyer said.

A Muslim in eastern Uganda beat and left for dead his wife and 18-year-old son on Tuesday (Aug. 11) after learning they had converted to Christianity, area sources said.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) - A mother of 11 who left Islam for Christianity was poisoned to death last week in a village in eastern Uganda, area sources said.

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) - Contrary to police reports, a nun with her face covered said yesterday at a press conference in Chhattisgarh state that two men raped her at a medical clinic in Raipur on Saturday (June 20).

Five Muslims in eastern Uganda gang-raped the 17-year-old daughter of a pastor because the church leader ignored their warnings that he stop worship services, she said.

Islamic extremists from Somalia-based Al Shabaab today targeted Christians in an attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 147 people, including two policemen.

As the West and Middle East grapple with how to end the Islamic State (IS), an Assyrian mother who escaped Islamic State kidnapping in northeastern Syria said she does not know of the whereabouts of her husband.

After months of indifference to Islamist militants killing Egyptian Christians in Libya, Egypt bombed Islamic extremist targets in Libya and declared seven days of mourning following the beheading of 21 Copts.

Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Jan. 23) killed a father of two in Taraba state whose pastoral ministry had brought education, medicine and clothing to thousands of impoverished people, sources said.

NAIROBI, Kenya - A 12-year-old girl who was hospitalized for two weeks after her Muslim father beat her and her sister for converting to Christ last month is traumatized after learning that her sister died from the assault, sources said.

Pregnant mother of four young children was dead when thrown into kiln; husband burned alive.

Armed Muslim extremists stormed two churches in Taraba state on Sunday (Oct. 19) and killed 31 people as they worshipped, a church leader said.

LAHORE, Pakistan - In spite of protests within Pakistan and abroad against the country's blasphemy laws, the Lahore High Court today upheld the death sentence for a Christian mother accused of insulting Islam's prophet.

Among a wave of attacks against non-Hindus since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power in India on May 26, a Christian couple in Bihar state required hospital treatment after Hindu extremists beat and publicly resolved to kill them.