Baptist Churches in Vietnam (BCV), one of several Baptist conventions and unions in the Southeast Asian country, gained official recognition from the Vietnamese government in
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s Supreme Court gave its consent to same-sex “marriages,” ordering the country’s Maoist-led government to craft laws to guarantee full rights to
Baptist leaders in the southern state of Karnataka in India have informed the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) that persecution is on the rise in that
BOUKHAM, Laos — Lao officials released three prisoners from Boukham village, Savannakhet province, after several weeks of detention, but restrictions on Christian worship in the
DHARAMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama will abandon efforts to persuade China to allow autonomy in Tibet, the exiled Tibetan leader said Oct. 25. “As
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his house until
Thanks to new ties of friendship forged by physicians at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham and longstanding Baptist work in Asia, medical work on
ORISSA, India — After police in India in the eastern state of Orissa confirmed that Maoists killed Hindu nationalist leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, a Hindu
