JAMMU, India — A court has ordered the Jammu and Kashmir state government to temporarily halt criminal proceedings against a pastor accused of bribing Muslim
PHULBANI, India — A Hindu extremist in Adigar, Phulbani, Kandhamal district attacked a pastor’s hut and harassed his family Jan. 25, according to the Global
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, America’s congressionally approved watchdog for global religious liberty, has called on Saudi Arabia to
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Two Catholic priests abducted at gunpoint in Rabak, Sudan, in January have been released amid a wave of forcible conscriptions into rebel
EKIBASTUZ, Kazakhstan — In Kazakhstan’s first known use of expanded and increased punishments for exercising freedom of religion or belief, a Baptist in eastern Kazakhstan
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic extremists from the rebel al-Shabaab militia in Somalia beheaded a Christian on the outskirts of Mogadishu in January, sources said. The