CHENNAI, India — India’s Supreme Court has told the state government of Orissa that it will not “tolerate persecution of religious minorities” and if the
BHUBANESWAR, India — About 2,100 Christian families driven from their homes in India’s Orissa state are receiving badly needed relief supplies from Southern Baptists’ world
Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda (temple) in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in
CHAKARIA, Bangladesh — The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in Chakaria took a serious turn in November when an attack
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — A new law adopted by Kazakhstan’s Parliament Nov. 26 will seriously restrict freedom of religion or belief, according to Forum 18 News
ORISSA, India — Christians in Orissa state are anticipating Christmas with fear as Hindu extremists have called for a statewide bandh, or forced shutdown on
BEIJING — In recent months Chinese officials have attempted to build bridges with the Protestant house church movement even as police raided more unregistered congregations,