SRINAGAR, India — A fact-finding mission to India’s Kashmir Valley found that Muslim leaders’ increasingly shrill opposition to conversions has instilled fear among the Christian
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — In Kazakhstan, Baptist leader Nikolai Popov was imprisoned for 48 hours in early December for refusing to pay fines imposed for leading
ANGREN, Uzbekistan — The authorities in Uzbekistan’s city of Angren have warned local religious communities not to be involved in unspecified “proselytism” and “missionary activity,”
More than 1,000 people are dead and hundreds of thousands struggling in the aftermath of a typhoon that slammed the southern Philippines Dec. 17. Southern
MYITKYINA, Myanmar — As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Burma’s capital, Naypyidaw, in a show of support for authorities’ ostensible reforms and