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• UN experts warn of violations against women and girls from Nigeria's Christian and other religious minority communities

  

  Geneva - Credible reports of killings, abductions, sexual violence, forced conversion, forced marriage, abductions and acts tantamount to enforced disappearances targeting Christian and other religious minority communities in Nigeria, particularly women and girls, are alarming, UN experts say.

• US Defense Department slashes number of recognized religions for the military

  

  The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them are Christian denominations.

• First female Lutheran bishop in Kenya welcomed by Lutheran World Federation

  

  The Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has installed its first woman bishop, Catherine Ngina Musau, at a ceremony attended by thousands of people

• Nigeria facing crisis of religious violence, according to monitoring group

  

  Nigeria is facing a terrifying crisis of religious violence and according to recent estimates, targeted violence has claimed the lives of nearly 53,000 Nigerian civilians since 2009, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).