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
We must have patience for the church in China,” said Baptist World Alliance (BWA) President David Coffey. “It is going in the right direction.” Coffey
NEW DELHI — As Burma’s military junta gears up this year for its first parliamentary election in two decades, observers fear attacks on the Christian
In the distant and isolated nation of Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas, known as the “Land of the Thunder Dragon,” almost everything looks uniformly Buddhist.
An organization that serves the persecuted church again has rated North Korea as the worst oppressor of Christians. It was the eighth consecutive year that
