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CAIRO. An Egyptian court has sentenced a 17-year-old Christian student to three years imprisonment after he posted cartoons on social website Facebook that “mocked Islam”, trial observers said Thursday, April 5. Gamal Abdou Massoud was also charged with distributing some of his cartoons among school friends in a village in the southern city of Assiut, [...]

TEHRAN. An Iranian court is to deliver a verdict in a case against 12 Christians who stood trial on Easter Sunday for charges that included “crimes against the order” an official assisting them said. Jason DeMars, director of the Present Truth Ministries advocacy group, told BosNewsLife Monday, April 9, that the believers faced the court [...]

Nigerian officials say a suicide car bombing near a church on Easter Sunday killed at least 36 people and wounded dozens more in the country’s north. Witnesses said security personnel in the city of Kaduna prevented the attacker from reaching a collection of churches. Saidu Adamu, Kaduna state’s information commissioner, told VOA the explosion damaged [...]