YUKORI-CHIRCHIK, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues punishing people exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission. In one incident, police and the
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — With new state censorship regulations for almost all religious literature and objects produced in or imported into Kazakhstan now in force, only
NAPA, California — In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA) refused a ruling from a church court
Alabama’s social programs “barely averted disaster” this year as lawmakers passed the 2013 general fund budget bill May 16. For weeks, various leaders of the