Pastors imprisoned, fined in Kazakhstan
June 6, 2013
A Protestant pastor in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, was arrested on criminal charges of “harming health” May 17, Forum 18 News Service reported. On
Baptist Global Response helps Pakistani college students impart hope after attack
May 30, 2013
The Pakistani college students stepped gingerly through the pile of bricks, barely recognizing the church building. Its once-white walls were ashen from hours of burning
Canadians turning away from organized religion
May 30, 2013
TORONTO — A new national study shows that while Canada remains overwhelmingly Christian, Canadians are turning their backs on organized religion in ever greater numbers.
Uzbek judge sentences Protestant to corrective labor
May 30, 2013
URGENCH, Uzbekistan — Sharofat Allamova, a Protestant from Urgench in northwestern Uzbekistan, has been given one and a half years of corrective labor after being
China now world’s largest producer of Bibles
May 30, 2013
NANJING, China — China, the world’s largest producer of textiles and manufactured goods, is now the largest producer of Bibles. In 2012, the country’s sole
Floods ravage western Uganda, BWA sends aid
May 30, 2013
Washington — The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) sent an initial sum of $5,000 to assist victims flooded out in the East African country of Uganda.
Nigeria home to world’s worst attacks on Christians
May 23, 2013
The horror that gripped Baptists in 2009 when Pastor Fred Winters was shot in the pulpit, or in 1999 when a shooter opened fire on
Explosion kills, injures worshippers at inaugural mass
May 16, 2013
DODOMA, Tanzania — Fear and grief rocked a predominantly Christian area of northern Tanzania on May 5 after an explosion at the inaugural mass of
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