Three Algerian Christians fighting a blasphemy sentence arrived at court in northwestern Algeria on Tuesday (July 15) to find that their hearing was postponed until October 21 because the presiding judge was on vacation...

A Pakistani couple has appealed a court decision to award custody of their two daughters, 10 and 13, to the children’s alleged kidnappers. The court based its custody decision on the girls’ conversion to Islam...

Christian churches in Kazakhstan have condemned a new draft law on religions, which they say will re-impose Soviet-style restrictions in the Central Asian republic in which Islam has the largest number of followers...

A new film seeking to smash Egypt's sectarian taboos takes a light approach to Muslim-Christian relations but critics say it fails to lay the blame for religious tensions where it belongs -- with the state...

Church people in Madhya Pradesh plan to renew their demand for the withdrawal of an amendment the central Indian state made to its anti-conversion law two years ago...

More than 100 Christians in Orissa state who suffered attacks by Hindu militants during Christmas last year plan to press charges against a Hindu ‘sage’ before a government panel..

Increasing violence between Egypt's Muslims and Coptic Christians is raising alarms that the sectarian hostility besetting Lebanon and Iraq may take root in the Middle East's most populous country...

The head of the Anglican Church recently described his views on the conflicts between Christianity and Islam in a letter to Muslim leaders...

Dozens of nations dominated by Islam are pressing the United Nations to adopt an anti-"defamation" plan that would make Christians criminals under international law...

President George W. Bush addresses his remarks honuoring the 10th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act, speaking Monday, July 14...

Two Christian missionaries, arrested by Norwegian police in May for spreading the gospel during an Oslo parade celebrating the birthday of the country's constitution, have been found guilty by a Norway trial court...

In the central high plains of Vietnam, working conditions for missionaries are often prohibitive; no roads, obstacles such as local authorities and language barriers, the most urgent that need to be tackled...

Authorities in West Papua, Indonesia, must move fast to prevent tension between Christian and Muslim communities escalating into a Malukan-style conflict, according to a recent report by the International Crisis Group (ICG)...

A Protestant from the Karakalpakstan [Qoraqalpoghiston] Region of north-west Uzbekistan, Aimurat Khayburahmanov, faces criminal trial "in ten to twenty days"...

Two Christian women were arrested on false charges of forcible conversion in Bangalore on July 12...

On 8 July, the Uzbek Bible Society finally received the official written rejection of its attempt to clear a shipment of Bibles and Bible-related books through customs...

"You are not allowed to preach about Jesus Christ, and you cannot meet together for any kind of church service," a local government official in Bhutan told a missionary on June 24...

A marriage registrar was harassed for refusing to conduct same-sex ceremonies, a tribunal has ruled...

Hindu militants attacked Pastor Akbar of Harvest Full Gospel Mission in a slum area in New Delhi...

Pierre Rehov is a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the Palestinian Intifada, including a film which explores the plight of Christians in Lebanon, Egypt and Palestinian Territories...