Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A government official in Malaysia banned a Christian newspaper from using the Arabic word "Allah" to refer to God, and efforts

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Seven days after charismatic Christian Bobur Aslamov was detained during a raid on a religious meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, his whereabouts remain

URUMQI, China — As China deals with the fallout of protests in Tibet and alleged protests in neighboring Xinjiang province, the family of a Uyghur

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Islamic extremist groups and local governments in Indonesia closed 110 churches from 2004 to 2007, according to religious and human rights organizations.

MADHYA PRADESH, India — Seven people associated with a Hindu extremist group attacked the March 23 evening service of a house church in Bherugarh village,

SRINAGAR, India — Peerzada Shakeel, a convert to Christianity from Islam in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir state, was arrested along with his wife, Arifa, on

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Two Baptists in Kazakhstan have been given large fines for peaceful religious activity. Pyotr Panafidin and Ivan Friesen were each fined 116,800