ASTANA, Kazakhstan — More than 12 weeks after his arrest by Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee secret police, Seventh-day Adventist Yklas Kabduakasov was sentenced to seven
MADHYA PRADESH, India — A pastor in Madhya Pradesh state in India is recovering after Hindu extremists beat him unconscious in September and left him
NA-ANG, Laos — A pastor in northern Laos who disregarded officials’ orders to stop preaching about Christ has been stabbed to death, sources said. A
HUTUTAG, India — An attack on a prayer meeting in Jharkhand state, India, sent six people to the hospital Sept. 4. It began when Hindu
Lawmakers in Nepal recently rejected an effort to declare the Himalayan nation a Hindu state, adopting draft language to a new constitution Sept. 14 maintaining
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Advocates for religious liberty are concerned about a new law passed by the parliament in Myanmar making it harder for a person
Almaty, Kazakhstan — Some 20 police officers, prosecutor’s office officials and education department officials raided a church-run children’s summer camp near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty,
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Pastor Sergei Rychagov of Grace Presbyterian Church, Tashkent, was heavily fined for violating the Religion Law, missionary activity, “illegal” religious teaching and
