Scores of Jordanians on 1 May tried to break into a church in the northern Ajloun province in protest against the reported killing of a local girl by her Christian father on the background of her recent conversion to Islam, said a report citing a Jordanian security source. “Some residents of Al-Wahadinah village besieged and tried to storm into the church, a short time after some youth attempted to burn it down before security forces intervened.”
The source added that the woman was killed by her father on 30 April a short time after she converted to Islam when she attended a lecture by prominent Saudi preacher Mohamed al-Arefe at the Jordanian University in the capital Amman. The protesters, who gathered outside an administrative province building before they headed to the church on 1 May, called for burying the slain woman in a cemetery designated for Muslims.