Islamists eastern Uganda beat a widow and her 16-year-old daughter unconscious on Dec. 30, leaving the girl unable to walk a year after killing her father.

Mahnoor Ashraf, a 14-year-old Pentecostal Christian, went missing shortly after leaving her home in Lahore’s Cantonment, and later found to have been forcibly converted to Islam and married.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day suicide bombing that killed at least five people in the DRC.

Islamists in Kenya, including suspected militants from Somalia, killed six Christians in southeastern Kenya.

A Christian woman and her children last week fled the violence of her Muslim husband in eastern Uganda, and earlier in a nearby district villagers destroyed a newly believing family’s crops, driving them from their home.

A Christian man in Kenya was killed on January 3, by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Bobo-Hindi, just one day after six Christians were killed in a nearby village.

According to the United Christian Forum (UCF), 2021 ended as the “most violent year” in recorded history for India’s Christian minority, recording 486 violent incidents of Christian persecution and topping the previous record of 328 incidents in 2019.

Authorities in Vietnam’s Phu Yen province harassed dozens of Montagnard Christians as they were getting ready to celebrate Christmas, accusing them of attempting to overthrow the Communist regime.