Hindu extremists beat, threaten 2 pastors

February 28, 2013

KORLAHALLI, India — Pastor Mallik Arjun knew something was wrong when he received a call from the mobile phone of his friend and fellow pastor

Persecution of Christians continues to rise for 7th straight year in China

February 14, 2013

Government persecution of Christians in China increased in 2012 for the seventh consecutive year, ChinaAid reported Feb. 4, with the government especially moving to eradicate

Vietnam’s religion decree seen as step backward

February 7, 2013

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Protestant Christians and leaders of other faiths in Vietnam are criticizing a new decree on religion that went

Christians in India fear returning home after attack

January 24, 2013

MUMBAI, India — Hindu extremists in India’s Maharashtra state recently assaulted Christians who still remained after a previous attack on believers. In the first incident,

Africa rises, China falls on persecution list

January 17, 2013

The persecution of Christians “vastly rose” in 2012 as radical Islamists consolidated power in Africa, according to Open Doors, a Christian missionary organization that publishes

Christians most populous, Pew research affirms

January 10, 2013

Christians are the world’s largest religious group and are nearly evenly dispersed globally, according to a new Pew study on the size, geographic distribution and

Chinese Christian leader K.H. Ting dies at 97

January 10, 2013

SHANGHAI — K.H. Ting, an Anglican bishop prior to China’s Cultural Revolution who led a “post-denominational” re-emergence of Chinese Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s,