TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan has confiscated Christian books from a youth group returning from Kazakhstan. An Uzbek customs official said the confiscations were a “temporary
Twenty-hour days in the face of desperate poverty, terrible diseases, sometimes-hostile neighbors and even tigers could grind down even the most faithful, but somehow, Leena
KARACHAEVSK, Russia — Political and religious leaders in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus region denounced arson attacks on two Russian Orthodox churches and one Baptist