WASHINGTON — The Gideon Bibles are going back in the Navy’s nightstand drawers. In June, the United States Navy ordered housekeepers at thousands of Navy-owned
While the world’s attention has been focused on the plight of Iraq’s suffering Yazidi community, Baptist Global Response (BGR) humanitarian partners have been working in
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on July 28 said he plans to tap Rabbi David Saperstein as the next ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, the
After weeks of sacking villages and destroying church buildings around Nigeria’s northeastern town of Gwoza, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed an estimated 100 people
And then there were nine. Secretary of State John Kerry announced July 28 that Turkmenistan has joined the State Department’s list of worst religious freedom
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Igor Kulyada, a Baptist from Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent, was jailed July 3–6. He was charged for putting up public leaflets with verses