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  Jun 28, 2023

  Christian family narrowly escape death as home is torched amid ethnic violence in India

  On the evening of May 3, an ethnic Christian in northern India’s Manipur state received a call from a relative advising her to pack up and leave home with her children immediately. Little did she know that she and her family would flee their home and narrowly escape death several times over the next 24 hours.

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  Jun 27, 2023

  Radical Fulani kill over 150 Christians; 3 pastors among the slain in spate of attacks

  Fulani terrorists in Plateau state, Nigeria, killed more than 150 Christians in the first three weeks of June, including a church pastor, sources said.

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  Jun 26, 2023

  Christian students slaughtered in terrorist attack on high school dorm in Uganda

  Islamist terrorists killed at least 37 students, most of them Christians, at the dormitories of a private high school in Uganda, and kidnapped six others, sources said.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Christian converts hospitalized after relatives beat them for praying to Jesus in Uganda

  Relatives of two brothers who accepted Christ in May beat them for leaving Islam earlier this month in eastern Uganda, sources said.

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  Jun 17, 2023

  46 Christians killed by terrorists amid 2 days of attacks in Nigeria

  Fulani herdsmen on June 3 and 4 killed 46 Christians in attacks on a cluster of villages in Benue state, Nigeria, sources said.

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  Jun 15, 2023

  Priest fatally shot in the back in Nigeria

  Unidentified gunmen shot a Roman Catholic priest to death in southwest Nigeria last week, a church spokesman said.

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  Jun 12, 2023

  Christian woman praying inside church killed by armed ethnic Meitei in Manipur state’s Khoken village

  A surge of ethnic violence with a growing religious component in northeastern India led to the killing on Friday of a woman in her church building and two other Christians, sources said.

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  Jun 8, 2023

  Hundreds of Christians killed in 3 weeks of attacks in Nigerian county; 28 churches destroyed

  At least 300 Christians have been massacred in one county of Plateau state, Nigeria since mid-May, including the killing of two pastors on Sunday, sources said.

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  Jun 7, 2023

  Pastors jailed, churches closed in India amid false allegations of forced conversion

  Having spent a month in jail on baseless charges before his release on bail, Pastor R. Kirubendran was baffled at hostilities from police, media and villagers after serving a community in northern India without problem for several years.

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  Jun 6, 2023

  Dozens of Christians killed in Nigeria by extremist herdsmen

  A Roman Catholic catechist and his wife were among dozens of Christians killed in central Nigeria’s Benue state last month, a local official said.