Astana, Kazakhstan — As part of its controls on free speech in the area of religion, Kazakhstan’s government agency controlling religion — the Agency of
ZHASKENT, Kazakhstan — Within 48 hours of a claim by Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev that “religious freedom is fully secured,” seven members of a small
Ayagoz, Kazakhstan — Two grandmothers in their late seventies were among seven Baptists fined in early April for participating in an unregistered religious meeting in
MUBAREK, Uzbekistan — A small Baptist church in Mubarek in southeastern Uzbekistan that has endured more than a decade of official harassment was again raided
CAIRO, Egypt — Coptic Christians attending a funeral service for four Coptic Christians killed in an anti-Christian rampage were in turn attacked themselves by at