India: increasing brutality
Forcing them to pose like Christ on the
cross, police beat Christians in custody on
baseless charges on 15 March.
Brandishing hockey sticks and steel rods,
30 Hindu extremists arrived with police at
the 200-strong church.
Sudan: Christians welcome reforms
The government of Sudan took three actions in March which Christians are rejoicing over as answers to prayers.
On 8 March, Mohamed Hassan Arabi told the Sudan Tribune that the death penalty would be removed and replaced with a disposition making it a criminal offence to accuse someone of apostasy.