PAPUA, Indonesia — Police in late May thwarted an Islamic terrorist plot to attack several churches and assassinate a leading church minister in Indonesia’s Christian-majority
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria — A pastor and employee sentenced in absentia for offering Christian materials in a church bookstore saw their punishment reduced June 6 on
Nigerian pastor and humanitarian Gideon Agwom Mutum received a handwritten death threat July 12 amid ongoing violence in the country’s southern Kaduna State. Daily armed
BELGAUM, India — Hindu extremists dragged a Christian pastor from a home on April 5, beat and kicked him as he was marched a mile
MINDAT, Myanmar — Myanmar’s army recently attacked two Christian-majority states, killing several and displacing thousands of others. Myanmar is predominately Buddhist. The army seized power
ORAN, Algeria — A judge has upheld the five-year prison sentence of a Christian man convicted of reposting on Facebook a cartoon of Islam’s prophet.
FAISALABAD, Pakistan — Two Christian nurses have been charged under Pakistan’s blasphemy statutes after they followed a supervisor’s orders April 9 to remove old wall
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — An Uzbek court fined a Baptist woman about two weeks’ wages Jan. 18 for offering 15 Christian magazines to her neighbors at
