Police said on June 24th that a 14-year-old boy in Pakistan reportedly stabbed a man belonging to the country’s Shia Muslim minority to death for allegedly speaking against the companions of the Prophet Muhammad in Punjab province.
A 14-year-old kid named Rehan stabbed an elderly man repeatedly and killed him in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, Punjab after a sectarian debate. pic.twitter.com/BO0aAOjVue
A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death for reportedly sharing what it claimed was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern province of Punjab last year, his lawyer said, adding they will appeal the verdict.
The Russian Republic of Dagestan in the country’s North Caucasus region is holding three days of mourning following an attack by Islamic militants in two cities that targeted Orthodox Christian and Jewish houses of worship as well as a traffic police post that killed 20 people, mostly police officers.
A Christian father and son were attacked by hundreds of enraged Muslims in eastern Pakistan over allegations that the son desecrated pages of the Quran, leaving their house as well as their shoemaking factory ransacked and burned.
The angry Muslim mob went on a rampage on May 25th when locals claimed they saw burnt pages of the Quran outside the two Christian men’s house and accused the son of being behind it. The mob then set their house and shoemaking factory on fire and attacked the son.
An asylum seeker was arrested in the United Kingdom for attempting to murder his housemate who converted from Islam to Christianity as well as a pensioner, with the murderer allegedly motivated by the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Hatun Tash, a Christian preacher and ex-Muslim known for her public preaching, activism, and criticism of Islam, was finally located after her friends and family said they hadn’t seen her for more than a month.
While many churches worldwide celebrated Christmas last year by sticking to longstanding traditions, a church in a town in Italy did something different, especially when setting up the Nativity scene, often a centerpiece in many communities and churches.
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Capocastello di Mercogliano became the center of controversy in Italy after it set up a Nativity scene featuring two mothers instead of Joseph and Mary's traditional setup.
As many people around the world celebrate the Christmas season and the upcoming New Year, Nigerians are shocked and outraged after a massive armed attack in central Nigeria that saw 160 people dead and more than 300 others injured, with the number of dead and injured still expected to rise as families and authorities continue to search for the missing victims.
Authorities in Nashville, Tennessee, arrested a mother, father, and son for assaulting a teenage boy for becoming a Christian after officers conducted a welfare check on the juvenile.
Around a week after the Satanic Temple of Iowa installed a Baphomet figure inside the Iowa State Capitol as part of a Christmas display, the statue was destroyed after a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and a former Republican candidate destroyed the altar set up by the nontheistic religious group.
