More than 100 suspected Islamists on Sunday night (March 20) killed 32 civilians, two soldiers and possibly abducted a woman in an attack on a predominantly Christian town in Nigeria, sources said.

Authorities in Pakistan beat and arrested a Christian on Tuesday (March 16) for allegedly making blasphemous comments on social media and later tortured him into confessing guilt, sources said.

Community members had just finished their church worship when armed insurgents arrived with sophisticated weapons, an eyewitness reported. More than 20 people were killed as Christian communities were under heavy attack in a Southern Kaduna city in Nigeria on Sunday night.

Yalam Sankar, a Christian pastor, has been brutally murdered in Angampalli village, Bijhapur district of Chhattisgarh state, Central India.

Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut.

Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said.

Hindus in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people.

Muslims who grew furious at the preaching of a speaker at an open-air evangelistic event last week in eastern Uganda beat him to death and burned his body.