BAKU, Azerbaijan — A court in the Azerbaijani capital Baku has ruled to liquidate the Greater Grace Protestant Church, the judge’s assistant said. At a
ISFAHAN, Iran — In a rare crackdown on a concentrated area, Iranian authorities have arrested Christians living in the country’s third largest city in what
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — In two separate cases in February, in different regions of Uzbekistan, courts have ordered religious literature confiscated from four Muslim women and
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations has moved to close down Greater Grace Church in Baku, the capital, for failing
LONDON — Leaders of three British religious bodies issued a joint statement March 15 calling on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Syria’s violent
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — On Feb. 5, police and National Security Service secret police officers raided an unregistered, mainly ethnic Korean Baptist church’s Sunday worship service
For a long time, Syrians were complacent. At least that’s how one person familiar with Syria described the people of the war-torn country. “[Syrians were]