After nearly five months' imprisonment, a court in Kazakhstan's capital Astana has extended pre-trial detention for 66-year-old Presbyterian pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev until Nov. 17, but
Baptist pastor Viktor Lim was ordered deported from Kazakhstan for leading a registered religious community and left in mid-August. Lim, a stateless person, had lived
HUAY, Laos — Local authorities in Laos are threatening Christians in three villages with expulsion unless they renounce their faith, with residents in one village
KARSHI, Uzbekistan — After a Baptist congregation in Uzbekistan’s southern city of Karshi had religious literature and church property confiscated in three police raids so
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Begzod Kadyrov, chief specialist of the Uzbekistan government’s Religious Affairs Committee in the capital of Tashkent, has defended the widespread fines handed