Due to pressure from the Chinese government, eight Catholic nuns have reportedly been forced to leave their convent in the northern province of Shanxi. Their current whereabouts have not been reported.
Christians in Saravan province in Laos have reportedly been evicted from their homes and forced to live in a forest area for refusing to renounce their faith.
Chinese authorities have reportedly abducted a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Mindong in Fujian on the south-east coast of China and has since been detained in an unknown location.
In a jam-packed hospital ward, 43-year-old Sushma Devi was lying on an old bed, murmuring a prayer while trying to ignore the pain from a wound to her head.
A hard-line Hindu mob hit and ridiculed Vikas Gupta, a 21-year-old Christian youth, as he was paraded through a village market in a remote part of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on July 2.
A faith-based human rights organization has condemned recent attacks on Christian families allegedly perpetrated by a hard-line Hindu nationalist group in India.
