Security forces were ordered Wednesday to shoot on sight protesters defying a curfew meant to end clashes between Christians and Hindus that have left 11 people dead in eastern India over the past three days.
As Hindu radicals go on the rampage in India's Orissa state, Christians are "running for their lives," says one missionary. One woman was killed and a priest seriously injured when a mob burned down a Christian orphanage Monday.
An Egyptian police reportedly struck three women while trying to stop them from repairing the only church in the area, a human rights group said. According to the women, the policeman refused to allow the women to take the sand into the church.
Hundreds of Christian theology students have been living in tents since a mob of angry Muslim neighbors stormed their campus last month wielding bamboo spears and hurling Molotov cocktails.