Asia
The US added Pakistan to a list of countries which have “engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, (and) egregious violations of religious freedom” this week. The Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, cited ...
Misguided or “heretical” beliefs can be reported instantly in a new mobile phone app, “Smart Pakam”, created by the Indonesia government. The App is described as a tool to educate Muslims on misguided beliefs and ...
China-backed separatist authorities in the north east of Myanmar’s Shan state are cracking down on Christians over alleged links to Western missionaries. In September, the United Wa State Army which controls the Wa Special Region that ...
The American missionary tragically killed in attempts to preach the gospel to an isolated island tribe said that his risk was “worth it to declare Jesus to these people” in a letter he wrote before ...
Pakistan Prime Minister, Irman Khan has claimed that there is no historical record of Jesus Christ in a 20 November speech. This could have been a dramatic slip of the tongue by the Oxford University ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan will lead an international campaign against religious “defamation” on 20 November, in an apparent attempt to place his administration at the forefront of efforts to counter Islamic “blasphemy” worldwide. ...
Mosques in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta are preaching extremism and encouraging congregations, many of whom are government workers, to join Islamic State. An investigation of 1,000 mosques by Indonesian intelligence services discovered 41 in one neighbourhood “preaching ...
Aasia Bibi’s plight has attracted attention around the globe with an increasing number of politicians speaking out on her behalf. More than 230 politicians from 28 countries have written an open letter to Pakistani Prime ...
The number of violent mob attacks on churches and arrests of Christians on false charges is accelerating at a dramatic pace in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, according to a report by the Evangelical ...
A regional governor has given 20 Christian families one month to leave their village in northern Laos or face jail after claiming Christianity is a “foreign religion”. Despite local church leaders pointing out that Christianity ...
