Asia

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

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