Middle East

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese authorities have released 1 of 2 pastors detained in December 2015, sources said. Kwa Shamaal, head of missions for the Sudanese

YIDA, South Sudan — Muslim extremists from Sudan have been arrested in connection with the burning of a church building in South Sudan, sources said.

NAWAN PIND, Pakistan — Muslims in a town in Pakistan’s Punjab Province who seized a church property have disrupted a prayer meeting at a private

SAKI, Crimea — Three of 8 Baptists from Saki in western Crimea who refused to pay fines for holding a public religious meeting were sentenced

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The head of discipleship at a North Khartoum, Sudan, church has been arrested, sources said. Agents of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security

Iranian pastor Farshid Fathi has been freed after five years imprisonment in Tehran because of charges linked to his Christian faith. Fathi was released Dec.