Asia

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

BANGALORE, India — Hindu nationalist extremists stormed two Easter services and beat at least 16 Christians, including two pastors, in Karnataka’s state capital of Bangalore

BOKEO, Laos — Laotian officials arrested 15 Hmong Christian families in Bokeo district Feb. 22, a day before a court sentenced nine area Hmong church

PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Islamic protestors in Indonesia have halted worship at a church on Sumatra island and at another church on Java island, even as

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues to attack peaceful religious activity. Eduard Kim, a Baptist in the eastern city of Fergana, was fined the equivalent of

KARACHI, Pakistan — Karachi police announced the arrest of three Islamist militants who have reportedly confessed to the unsolved murders of seven Pakistani Christians in