Along with an off-duty police officer, radical Hindu nationalists attacked Christians during a private prayer gathering.
About three weeks ago, a mob of right-wing Hindu fundamentalists, accompanied by an off-duty police officer, launched an attack on a private home where the Christians had gathered for a prayer meeting in the east-central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Roughly 15 Christians were physically assaulted.
An ancient Christian monastery possibly pre-dating Islam has been found on Siniyah Island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials said on November 3rd.
A Pew Research poll published on October 27 revealed that nearly half of Americans believe the US should be a “Christian nation.” However, 45% of Americans do not agree on a definition of what that label means.
On October 26, Pope Francis talked about the dangers of digital pornography during a convention with seminarians in the Vatican. The Pope said that just like everyone else, nuns and priests watch pornographic content online.
On September 29, an appeals court in the state of Louisiana decided to allow a judge to lead prayer in his public courtroom, overturning last year’s verdict from a district court in Texas.
On September 17, a pastor and dozens from his congregation were kidnapped from a Christian church in northwest Nigeria. Less than a week before, fifty-seven Christians were kidnapped at another church in a north-central state. In fact, the last few years have shown a marked increase in attacks and abductions in the country of both Christian church members and their clergy.
A young Ex-Muslim man who converted to Christianity was sentenced to death on September 4 under an "anti-apostasy" law by the Misrata Court of Appeal in Libya. The law condemning the man of apostasy is controversial in the country.
