Asia

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

For 200 years, Christian education in Myanmar, formerly Burma, has endured through all kinds of challenges and the future is as bright as the promise

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