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
Lutherans, Vatican argue over ‘ordinariate’
February 7, 2013
VATICAN CITY — Lutheran leaders have warned the Vatican that the creation of a structure to welcome conservative Lutherans into the Catholic Church would
Belarus: Religious freedom survey
February 6, 2013
Belarus continues to keep religious communities within an invisible ghetto of regulation, Forum 18 News Service has found. The state closely controls people meeting together
Local Christians stand firm during persecution in Mali; most representatives evacuate
January 31, 2013
Most International Mission Board (IMB) representatives assigned to the West African nation of Mali have left the country due to the continuing conflict between Islamist
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