For more than three months, four Lao Christians have been jailed in the country’s Khammouane province for planning a Christian funeral that goes against the local customs. Read more: International Christian Concern
Last week, a 13-year-old Christian girl was abducted outside of her home in Karachi, Pakistan. Two days later, the girl’s parents were informed she had become the latest victim of forced conversion and forced marriage. Read more: International Christian Concern
On October 13, Pakistan was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council – a surprising election given the country’s human rights violation history. Read more: International Christian Concern
Authorities drove out seven Laotian Christians from their homes when they refused to renounce their faith, forcing them to live in the nearby forests. Read more: International Christian Concern
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that “in recent years, religious freedom conditions in Burkina Faso have deteriorated, with the country facing interrelated security and humanitarian crises.” Read more: International Christian Concern
Early this month, 10 Christian families in Chhattisgarh state were violently attacked by Hindu nationalists after they refused to recant their Christian faith. Several Christians were severely injured. Read more: International Christian Concern
A pastor’s son, his cousin and their 20-year-old aunt were assaulted in a suburb north of Khartoum, Sudan as Muslims continued targeting church members despite new religious freedoms. Read more: Morning Star News
China continues its assault on the heavily persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church by forcibly removing elder Li Yingqiang from his home as his young children witnessed and were threatened by police. Read more: International Christian Concern
A group of Hindus beat and paraded Pastor Raj Singh along with four other Christians in India, after falsely accusing them of eating beef. To further humiliate them, they shaved their heads like monks, called tonsuring. Read more: Morning Star News
Three Christians were severely beaten by a mob of angry villagers in India’s eastern state of Odisha upon hearing of their recent conversions to Christianity. Read more: International Christian Concern
