Asia

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

JERUSALEM — Non-Orthodox groups are praising the Jerusalem municipality’s decision to approve the establishment of the city’s first non-Orthodox cemetery. All Jewish cemeteries in Jerusalem

NEW DELHI — India’s national capital witnessed two incidents of anti-Christian violence at the end of February, including an attack Feb. 28 on a relief

MADHYA PRADESH, India — At least 125 Hindu extremists attacked one of the oldest and best known churches in Madhya Pradesh state, Masihi Mandir Church,