According to Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), on December 30, the Assembly of God Church and one of the Thantlang Association of Baptist Churches’ buildings were burned down by the Tatmadaw along with more than 50 structures.

Five people in Nigeria were brutally attacked by Fulani militants on December 31, while on their way home from an annual prayer meeting held for the Christian communities of Irigwe chiefdom.

The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Rashad Hussain as the next Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He is the first Indian American Muslim to serve as the highest-ranking member in the State Department for advancing international religious freedom in U.S. foreign policy.

According to military sources, suspected Islamic extremists decapitated a pastor in Cabo Delgado last Wednesday, and forced his wife to carry his head to the police station.

Two Christians were killed and dozens kidnapped during an attack on a church service in southern Kaduna state, with eight others slain in earlier assaults on predominantly Christian villages.

Two pastors were ruthlessly beaten by a mob of radical Hindu nationalists during a prayer meeting in India’s Chhattisgarh state. According to local reports, the mob burned Bibles and demanded the Christians stop holding worship services in the village.

Hours after a Hindu mob assaulted and held more than 60 Christians against their will in central India under accusations of forcible conversion last month, police detained the Christians rather than the assailants.

A kidnapped Christian in Kogi state, Nigeria was killed in a rescue operation on Oct. 2, the same day three other Christians were killed in another attack in the state.