SECUNDERABAD, India — Attacks on Christians in February in Punjab state following protests against banners depicting Jesus drinking and smoking were eerily similar to the
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues to attack the country’s registered Baptist Union, local Baptists have said. One Baptist, Valery Konovalov, has been forced to pay
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Three members of the unregistered Greater Grace Protestant Church have been given heavy fines in Samarkand in central Uzbekistan. The fines followed
BEKASI, Indonesia — Hundreds of Muslims from outside the area where a 600-member church meets in West Java staged a protest there in February to
GULISTON, Uzbekistan — Tohar Haydarov, a Baptist arrested by Guliston City Police in central Syrdarya region Jan. 18, faces criminal charges of producing or storing
KATIN, Laos — About 100 local officials, police and villagers put guns to the heads of Christians during their Sunday morning service in a village
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Baptist World Alliance (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam sent a letter of support to what he called the “Baptist family in
MEDAN, Indonesia — Islamic extremists are suspected to have burned two church buildings under construction in a village in North Sumatra on Jan. 22. The
