Cameroon admits soldiers, vigilantes killed 10 kids, 3 women in massacre
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Cameroon admits soldiers, vigilantes killed 10 kids, 3 women in massacre
Human Rights Watch identifies the vigilantes as suspected armed ethnic Fulani herdsmen
Cameroon admits soldiers, vigilantes killed 10 kids, 3 women in massacre
A woman stands outside the damaged roof of a school s dormitory, after it was set to fire overnight in Bafut, on November 15, 2017, in the northwest English-speaking region of Cameroon. | AFP via Getty Images
Authorities in Cameroon have admitted that soldiers were involved in the killing of three women and 10 children in a mid-February attack in the civil war-stricken Northwest province in which 21 people were killed and several homes were pillaged.
Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 15 in Cameroon
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Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 15 in Cameroon
Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 15 in Cameroon | Sunday, January 10, 2021
A man holds a sign that reads Stop Boko Haram at a rally to support Chadian troops heading to Cameroon to fight Boko Haram, in Ndjamena January 17, 2015. | (Photo: Reuters/Emmanuel Braun)
A small girl, used by the terrorist group Boko Haram, blew herself up in the middle of a crowded park in northern Cameroon, killing at least 15 people, according to reports.
The suicide bomber blew herself up in a public park in the town of Mozogo in the Mayo-Tsanaga area of Cameroon on Friday. Five children between the ages of three to 14 were among the victims, according to UNICEF.
Men say their prayers during Eid al-Fitr at the Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. | REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
Three young Christians in northeastern Pakistan have been charged with blasphemy after area Muslims alleged that pages of the Quran had been burned near some Christian homes to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims, according to a report.
Police charged the three Christians, identified as Azeem Mehmood, Abbas Gulshan, and Irfan Saleem, from a village named Kotli Muhammad Sadique in Punjab Province’s Narowal district, on Dec. 30, the U.K.-based group Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement, known as CLAAS, learned recently.
Arzoo Raja flanked by police in Karachi, Pakistan, with Ali Azhar on far right. | Sindh government
A court in Pakistan has released on bail a Muslim man who abducted, raped and forced a 13-year-old Christian girl into an Islamic “marriage,” based on his argument that the girl had attained puberty.
Ali Azhar, 44, was released on bail last month as he maintained he had not violated Pakistan’s laws against child marriage and child rape because the Christian girl, Arzoo Raja, had attained puberty, the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern reported on Saturday.
If found guilty of rape, Azhar would face life in prison or a death sentence.
A church is seen beside a laver farm at the Gutong Village of Sansha Township on October 15, 2007 in Xiapu County of Fujian Province, China. | Getty Images/China Photos
Officials in China’s Taiyuan city raided a house church, confiscated Christian books, and detained the preacher and five members during a Bible study, according to a report.
Nearly 40 officials descended on the home of An Yankui, the preacher of Xuncheng Church in the capital of Shanxi province, on Wednesday evening, about one-and-a-half months after a separate raid on his home, according to the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern.