Rights advocates said it was quite likely that the impoverished Christian was targeted by a “blasphemy business group” that has entrapped hundreds of innocent persons.

Members of different churches belonging to the Sudan Council of Churches were arrested when they were on their way to a thanksgiving prayer meeting of a body known as the Inter-Church Committee.

She was abducted two months prior by a Muslim neighbor who forcibly converted her to Islam and coerced her into marrying him.

Christians were tortured and accused of theft. The Sudanese Christian Youth Union asserted that the accusations were false.

The family decided to keep their faith secret for fear of Muslims of the area, since the father was a committee member in one of the mosques.

Days before, Fulani herdsmen also raided a village in Plateau state and killed 15 Christians.

In just one week, Fulani herdsmen killed 48 Christians, including women and children, many were on their way to church services.

A Christian was ambushed and killed, days after another Christian and his mother were slain.Spike in violence in central part of country continues.

“Today, the court has decided that certain thoughts, silent thoughts, can be illegal in the United Kingdom”, Adam Smith-Connor said after the court ruling.

At least 10 people were murdered and 30 kidnapped, including religious leaders, during several Sunday morning worship services, in just 2 weeks.

“Due to the threats, many Christians refused to stand as witnesses in court”, says one of the residents who filed a complaint. 11 more persons accused of blasphemy have lost their lives in the past 18 months.

Residents said herdsmen also attacked other predominantly Christian villages in the Ukum area in the past three months

The victims are farmers and were working when 20 heavily armed assailants attacked. One of the Christians was shot and his hands was shattered.

The father filed a complaint, but the police took no action. Judges routinely ignore evidence of the girl’s ages, handing them to kidnappers as their “legal” wives.

In the last month, mobs lynched a Muslim resident, and beat a 74-year-old Christian with stones, accusing them of breaking blasphemy laws.

The widow said her husband’s employers tortured him because they wrongly suspected he had stolen goats from their farm. He died 10 days later.

Dozens of other Christians were wounded and received treatment in hospitals, sources in the area said.

United Nations experts say Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence.

They were slain in a highway ambush by Fulani terrorists. Dozens of other Christians were wounded in the attack.

Tribal villagers violently attacked and expelled an old man and a couple for refusing to renounce their Christian faith.

The false blasphemy charges had led to Muslims attacking Christian homes and businesses in Pakistan last year, forcing hundreds to flee.

The victim was attacked by Muslim villagers while he was helping to set up an open-air evangelistic event.

Two brothers were abducted, beaten with iron rods and pressured to convert to Islam. “This is not the first time Christians are targeted in the area”, says a Christian leader.

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Armed groups attacked around 20 small villages in Plateau state in 2 days. Christian leaders urge authorities to take action to prevent future threats.