• Christian Man in Kenya Narrowly Escapes Death After Armed Muslims Attack Him, Abduct Wife And Children

  A secret Christian in coastal Kenya escaped Muslim in-laws who last week sought to stab him and took his wife and children, less than two weeks after Islamic extremists further south torched two church buildings, sources said.

  

• The Problem of Islam and the Islamic State

  Two remarkable pieces about Islamist violence were published last week in mainstream media - one answering the ambivalence thoughtful people feel on what to do about the Islamic State, and the other answering perplexity on what to do about Islam.

  

• Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused of Raping Two Christian Girls

  Two Muslim men who raped two Christian sisters in Pakistan last year have been acquitted after Islamists pressured a key witness not to testify and a prosecutor failed to show up in court, family and legal sources said.

  

• Muslim Extremists Burn Down Christian Church in Sudan: 'Who Is Free to Burn God's Temple?'

  On top of recent government demolitions of church buildings, suspected Muslim extremists in Sudan's eastern city of Al Qadarif this month set fire to one used by a 500-member congregation, sources said.

  

• Monk in Burma Erects Buddhist Structures in Baptist Church Compound, Ignores Pleas of Christians

  An influential Buddhist monk in southern Burma (also called Myanmar) has erected Buddhist structures in a Baptist church compound.