Asia

SIPIROK, Indonesia — Police and local government officials joined forces with a Muslim mob to close a church in North Sumatra province July 30. Church

KERALA, India — Tensions between Christians and Muslims in India’s Kerala state have reached the boiling point over allegations of widespread coerced conversions to Islam.

Leaders of a church in West Java, Indonesia demanded justice from police after a fifth attack from Muslim protestors left at least a dozen people

PINGNA, Bangladesh — Two Christian women in Bangladesh’s northern district of Jamalpur said village officials extorted relatively large sums of money from them — and

BHALWA, India — Two evangelists said they survived an attack in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, by playing dead when suspected Hindu extremists surrounded them July