Asia

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

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.

Deep in the bowels of a converted factory complex in Moscow, Denis and his band mates crank up the volume. The window into their dingy,