• Indian Pastor Beaten by Hindu Extremists While Praying Vows to Continue Sharing Gospel: 'My Lord is Ever Victorious'

  September 4, 2017: A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, "Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!"

  

• Mother in Uganda Beaten, Driven from Home by Muslims for Embracing Christianity

  August 31, 2017: A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said.

  

• Pastors Arrested in Sudan as Government Moves to Take Over Church

  August 28, 2017: Police in Sudan arrested and interrogated seven church leaders last week in Omdurman, Sudan before releasing them on bail, sources said.

  

• Christian Mother Who Died in Detention in Eritrea Showed Signs of Torture

  August 25, 2017: A relative at the burial of a Christian mother of three who died in detention in Eritrea told Morning Star News her body showed signs of torture that could have contributed to her death.

  

• Egypt Closes 1,300-Member Church to 'Appease Islamic Extremists'

  August 24, 2017: Authorities have closed a church that serves three villages in Upper Egypt on the pretext that area Muslims object to it - one of at least 15 Christian worship sites shuttered in the bishopric of Minya, sources said.