"Last year," states online the World Watch List report on the 50 worst countries for Christian persecution, "it was noted that 2014 had been an unprecedented year in Christian persecution, and Open Doors predicted that it would only get worse." Curry noted that the report's timespan (November 1, 2014, to October 31, 2015, as described in a distributed fact sheet) had witnessed "persecution continuing to increase, intensify, and spread across the globe." The 2016 World Watch List map indicat

St. Elijah's Monastery stood as a place of worship for 1,400 years, including most recently for U.S. troops. In earlier millennia, generations of monks tucked candles in the niches, prayed in the chapel, worshipped at the altar. The Greek letters chi and rho, representing the first two letters of Christ's name, were carved near the entrance.

Christians who are crucified, tortured, raped, enslaved and suffer wholesale destruction of their communities by the Islamic State apparently don't qualify for asylum.

To rectify this horrific disparity, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California is sponsoring The Save Christians from Genocide Act (H.R. 4017).

At least two people were killed in the attack, near the north-eastern village of El Wak on the Somali border.

The Somali based al-Shabab group is the main suspect for the attack.

It has not said if it was responsible, but often carries out attacks in Kenya's north-east.

The bus was travelling from the capital Nairobi to the town of Mandera.