Asia

AMBOJIPETA, India — Police officers and members of a Hindu extremist group in India’s Andhra Pradesh state lured a pastor into a remote forest March

KUTABAGA, India — A mob of about 400 people stirred up by Hindu extremists belonging to the Bajrang Dal ransacked a Gospel for Asia Bible

ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan — An Uzbekistan criminal court has sentenced Christian pastor Dmitry Shestakov to four years in a prison colony for alleged illegal religious activities.

SHANGHAI, China — Citizens of the People’s Republic of China are perhaps four times more religious than the government previously thought, according to a new

PEDAPALLPARRU, India — The body of 29-year-old Pastor Goda Israel was found with stab wounds Feb. 20 in a canal near his home in Pedapallparru

ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan’s religious authorities admitted publicly in February that Dmitry Shestakov was arrested in January in the eastern city of Andijan and faces