Abducted girl’s family threatened in Pakistan
February 14, 2013
LAHORE, Pakistan — A powerful Pakistani politician’s aid who abducted a Christian girl from her home in Karachi has warned her parents that the
Police raid Baptist services in Kazakhstan
February 14, 2013
PETROPAVL, Kazakhstan — At least eight separate meetings for worship in Kazakhstan were raided by the authorities in January, according to Forum 18 news service.
Iranian-American pastor reportedly tortured
February 11, 2013
An Iranian-born pastor who is a U.S. citizen is undergoing physical and mental torture in a notoriously brutal Tehran prison while an international campaign for
Vietnam’s religion decree seen as step backward
February 7, 2013
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Protestant Christians and leaders of other faiths in Vietnam are criticizing a new decree on religion that went
Iran sentences US pastor to 8 years in prison
February 7, 2013
ISTANBUL — Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s most notorious prison Jan. 27 for allegedly threatening “national security” by planting
South Sudanese Christians ordered to leave country
February 7, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya — A South Sudanese couple, Anthony and Cecilia Jamu, and Ismail Bashir, a pastor from South Sudan, were ordered to leave Sudan on
Uzbek charged for ‘illegally’ storing religious literature
February 7, 2013
URGENCH, Uzbekistan — After two raids on her home in Urgench in northwest Uzbekistan in January and being detained for 11 hours, Sharofat Allamova
European Court issues 2 religious liberty rulings
February 7, 2013
STRASBOURG, France — Religious freedom is a right, but not without limits, Europe’s top human rights court said in mid-January after issuing two religious
