Asia

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

JAIPUR, India — The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan state passed a new “anti-conversion” bill March 20 with more stringent and arbitrary provisions

BELGOROD, Russia — A regional court in Russia has dissolved a functioning Methodist congregation because it did not file a report about its annual activities