The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called on the United States and the United Nations to mount an international effort to hold
MALATYA, Turkey — An e-mail message to Turkish Protestant leaders in June surfaced in the Turkish press in September, according to Compass Direct News Service.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Death threats and other dangers in Maiduguri drove most of the members of a church of converts from Islam to other parts
RANCHI, India — Local villagers in Jharkhand state arranged for a Christian worker, Ajay Topno, to be shot to death in September for converting three
KOBRIN, Belarus — A state official has defended as lenient a fine of almost two weeks’ average wages imposed on Viktor Orekhov for organizing a
FAISALABAD, Pakistan — In mid-September, a Pakistani judge unexpectedly cleared a Christian teenager of charges that he had ripped up pages containing verses from the
CAIRO — Egypt has denounced a U.S. report on the African nation’s worsening condition of religious freedom. The State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report,
BOMMASANDRA, India — Six Hindu extremists beat Pastor Abey C. Mathew, 30, of the Christian Ministry Church Sept. 6 in the Bommasandra area of Bangalore.
