Muslim cleric acquitted for ‘fake allegations’
September 5, 2013
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A court in Islamabad, Pakistan, dismissed charges Aug. 17 against a Muslim cleric arrested on suspicion of framing a Christian girl for
Hindu extremists attack pastor’s mother in India
September 5, 2013
JAIPUR, India — Reena Behl answered the doorbell of the home she shares with her son and his wife in India’s Rajasthan state at 2:30
Baptist camp raided, forced to close in Turkmenistan
September 5, 2013
MARY, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan police raided a summer children’s camp run by the Baptist church in the southeastern town of Mary. Fifteen police plus health
North India church destroyed by 1,000-strong mob
August 30, 2013
INDIA (TAB, GFA) – A mob of approximately 1,000 people destroyed a Christian church under construction in northern India on Aug. 25, according to Gospel
Words of persecuted Egyptian Baptists reminiscent of early leaders of Baptist movement
August 29, 2013
Anger. Killing. Blood.” These are words that currently describe Egypt, said Mounir Sobhy Yacoub Malaty, pastor of First Baptist Church, Cairo. “Attacks have not stopped.
BGR provides comfort, hope to terminally ill in Africa through ‘bucket of love’
August 29, 2013
Susan Rodgers, a Baptist Global Response (BGR) partner in Lusaka, Zambia, distributes hospice care buckets as she visits the terminally ill in her city. Eight-year-old
Churches raided in China; leaders under house arrest
August 29, 2013
Beijing, China — Local police broke up the worship service of a house church and arrested its pastor in China’s Xinjiang region for the second
Islamic extremists abduct Christian mother in Somalia
August 29, 2013
BULO MARER, Somalia — Islamic extremists suspected to be rebel militants have kidnapped a Christian mother of two young children in Somalia and threatened her
