East Europe
Thousands of Bulgarian Christians rallied in favour of religious liberty last month, in protest against new laws restricting mission and worship. Christians gathered in Sofia for three consecutive Sundays on 11, 18 and 25 November in ...
All Evangelical churches in the Lugansk People’s Republic face forced closure, as authorities in the self-proclaimed autonomous region in eastern Ukraine are understood to have banned their activity, according to persecuted church aid agency, Barnabas ...
Armed men raided a church in Alchevsk, eastern Ukraine last month and detained a church pastor. The men, apparently from the security ministry of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), interrupted a service and forced the ...
Legal experts cautiously welcomed a ruling which they hope may reduce prosecutions against Christians for “missionary activity” in Russia. Baptist pastor Sergei Stepanov appealed to Russia’s Constitutional Court after he was convicted for posting an invitation ...
Three Christians were killed in an attack on a church in Chechnya by four Islamist terrorists armed with guns and knives. The gunmen, who were also carrying Molotov cocktails according to some news reports, attempted to storm ...
Suspected separatist militia robbed an Evangelical-Baptist church in Kadiivka, around 30 miles from Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, on the night of 27 March 2018. A representative from the Union of Evangelical-Baptist Churches told OSCE international ...
Five women have been killed in an Islamist terror attack on a church in the Caucasus region of Dagestan. A gunman, armed with a hunting rifle and a knife, opened fire on worshippers as they left ...
Christianity is Europe’s “last hope”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a speech on Sunday (18 February), claiming European politicians have “opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam.” In his ...
A Baptist worshipper in Azerbaijan is facing demands to pay a fine by the end of the year for meeting for worship without state permission in December 2016. A Baptist pastor who was fined alongside him ...
Baptist Christians in Belarus have been repeatedly fined by the court in Lepel since mid-October for public singing and offering Christian literature to passers-by. A complaint has been made that the police have been too rough ...
