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.

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.

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