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Nigerian Believer Tortured For Refusing To Return To Islam

Sanusi Ali, 21, of Danja local government area of Katsina state is being kept under horrific conditions at an unknown location in Kano city, Nigeria, because of his decision to follow Christ. Sanusi’s deaf and dumb Christian mother, Kurma Ali was allowed to see her son briefly. She told Open Doors that the young man is being kept in a dark room in chains where he faces torture for his refusal to return to Islam. The mother insists that her son is not being given sufficient food and faces daily torture.


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Eritrean Christians Continue To Face Pressure

Eritrea banned all independent protestant churches in May 2002. The government recognizes only the Eritrean Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches as legal religions, in addition to the traditional Islam practiced by half of the population. Since the ban of the protestant churches Asmara has incarcerated at least 2,000 evangelical Christians in local jails, police stations and military camps for their refusal to adhere to the restriction.
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Iran "Temporarily" Releases Badly Injured Christian
After four weeks in police custody, Iranian Christian Mohsen Namvar was released “temporarily” last week to return to his home in Tehran.
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A court in western Algeria convicted two Muslim converts to Christianity yesterday for illegally spreading their faith.
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At least 36 Christian families whose houses were burned during Christmas season violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district have been evicted from their damaged homes.
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A series of death threats against a pastor in a working-class Medellín neighborhood prompted him to abandon his home and ministry last month and flee with his family to Colombia’s capital.
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Turkey: Charge of 'Insulting Turkishness' Questioned
Twenty months after two Turkish Christians went on trial for allegedly “insulting Turkishness and Islam,” a local criminal court has requested a Justice Ministry review of one of three charges in the case.
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