Around 2 a.m. on January 20, a church building in a Muslim-majority area of Tanzania was set on fire. Before that, the pastor of the church had been repeatedly threatened.
The church building was in in Mashewa, in the Muheza district of Tanga Region, which is overwhelmingly Muslim.
Weeks earlier, also in the same region, “a young woman from a Muslim background who had become a Christian, was beaten and badly burned by her parents after choosing to marry a Christian man. The attack came immediately after her baptism on Sunday 2 November in Zirai, Muheza district. Last year, Imamu Sudi Bin Umar of the Ansar Suna mosque in Al Masijid Tawaqal had urged all Muslim parents to punish children who chose to marry Christians.”
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