Hindu militants force Christians into temple
January 5, 2006
NEW DELHI — Two militant Hindu groups struck churches in India’s Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh states Dec. 4. At least 25 members of the Hindu
Target targeted for policy on ‘morning-after pill’
January 5, 2006
MINNEAPOLIS — The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is targeting Target Corp. over the retailer’s policy allowing pharmacists in its stores to refuse to fill
Muslims demand hanging of ‘Quran desecrater’
December 22, 2005
SANGLA HILL, Pakistan — During Dec. 2 prayers in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Muslim clerics, flanked by government officials, demanded the public execution of a Christian
University of Kansas professor reportedly beaten
December 22, 2005
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a University of Kansas professor who wrote that teaching intelligent design as mythology would
Protestant pastor in Egypt run down, killed by taxi
December 15, 2005
CAIRO, Egypt — Under threat from Egypt’s security police for holding services at his house church, a Protestant pastor was run down by a taxi
Police raids on believers continue in Azerbaijan
December 8, 2005
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Police raids on religious communities have continued to take place at a disturbing rate, religious liberty news service Forum 18 has found.
Iranian convert kidnapped, stabbed to death
December 8, 2005
GONBAD-E-KAVUS, Iran — In late November, an Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding
Oregon, U.S. officials clash over assisted suicide
October 13, 2005
WASHINGTON — Oregon and the United States squared off before the U.S. Supreme Court over physician-assisted suicide Oct. 5, with the state government arguing
