Religious Affairs Minister, Mr. Bouabdellah Ghlamallah said he has told French Interior Minister, Ms. Michele Alliot-Marie, Algeria practices no segregation between Muslims and adherents of other religions, including Christians...

Religious Affairs Minister, Mr. Bouabdellah Ghlamallah said he has told French Interior Minister, Ms. Michele Alliot-Marie, Algeria practices no segregation between Muslims and adherents of other religions, including Christians...

Church people and others see a political game in a Hindu leader's claim that he "reconverted" hundreds of Christians to Hinduism...

A delegation of the Missionaries of Charity has returned to the district of Khandamal, where anti-Christian persecution broke out last Christmas. They have seen the mistrust of Christians toward Hindus, and the importance of reconciliation...

A Malaysian court has accepted the request of a woman convert to Islam to return to Buddhism, her original religion. Recently similliar cases have come to light, but have resulted in a ban on changing religions, creating strong ethnic and religious tensions in Malaysia...

Muslim villagers in Mymensingh district eager to rid the area of the Christian work of a local pastor have gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter...

Three men, one of them armed with a gun and wearing gloves, threatened a Protestant church and its pastor in the Turkish capital city of Ankara yesterday...

Muslim militants and local government authorities last week threatened to tear down a church building under construction in North Sumatra even though church leaders met requirements of Indonesia’s draconian law on worship places, the church’s pastor said...

China Tuesday expressed "firm opposition" to a U.S. report on the religious situation in China...

In a worldwide survey, a democracy watchdog organization said 90 countries respect a broad array of basic human rights and political freedom while 103 countries fail to some degree to observe standards of liberal democracy...

On May 11, 2005 Evangelist Girmay Ambaye, was arrested by security police in Eritrea for witnessing about Christ to people on a city bus....

Leaders of a variety of religious communities have expressed serious concerns to Forum 18 News Service about the proposals now in parliament to amend the Religion Law and a number of other laws affecting religious activity...

Tajikistan's Ministry of Culture has prevented 100,000 Tajik-language bibles ordered by the local Baptist community from entering the country...

Hindutva activists have stepped up their efforts to harass a Pastor and his community of believers in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh...

St Aiden’s Presbyterian pastor Rinny Westra says he has seen Immigration New Zealand targeting Iranian converts for harsh treatment...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has forced about 1,200 Christian farmers to flee from a village in the southern province of Mindanao...

By any standards, the situation of Christians in Iraq is a true disaster. Estimates of the number of Chaldean Christians before the war vary widely, but there may have been 800,000. Probably at least half have fled...

Turkey has made significant progress in democratization in the past decade, but major challenges remain in terms of local and national governance, the electoral process, minority rights, the strength of civil society and press freedoms, a US-based international think tank announced yesterday in Istanbul...

A British citizen who converted to Christianity from Islam and then complained to police when locals threatened to burn his house down was told by officers to “stop being a crusader”, according to a new report...

For Christians living in the ancient sprawling town of Tel Kaif, just 10 minutes north of Mosul, geography is a curse. "We are sandwiched between the Arabs in Mosul, and the Kurds in Erbil," says William Warda, 47, who grew up in this city in the 1960s and '70s...