• Hunger Strikes in Iran Protest Upsurge in Harsh Sentences, Treatment of Christians

  July 31, 2017: Two Christian prisoners in Iran went on hunger strikes to protest increasingly harsh treatment of those arrested for house-church activities.

  

• Church in Zanzibar, Tanzania Shaken as Court Supports Muslims’ Opposition to Building

  A court on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, ruled on Thursday (July 20) that a church cannot continue constructing a worship building it has tried to finish for eight years, sources said.

  

• Christian Student Killed in Spate of Boko Haram Attacks in Northeast Nigeria

  July 25, 2017: Among several Boko Haram bombings that have put northeastern Nigeria on edge this year was a suicide attack on Christian student organization quarters that killed a Christian student, sources said.

  

• Police in India Arrest Six Christians, Call Worship ‘Unlawful Assembly'

  July 25, 2017: Berating and slapping a pastor for reading the Bible instead of Hindu texts, police in Uttar Pradesh state, India last month detained six Christians under "unlawful assembly" laws for worshiping together, sources said.

  

• Pastor in India Shot Dead in Front of Church by Suspected Hindu Extremists

  July 17, 2017: A pastor in northern India's Punjab state was shot dead in front of his church premises two months after Hindu extremists took offense at a gospel event celebrating his church's 25th anniversary, sources said.