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Indian state of Karnataka orders probe into Christian missionaries

A member of the state legislature proposed the registration of Christian missionaries, claiming that 40 percent of churches are "unofficial"

Protesters shot dead in Bangladesh after Koran ‘desecration’

The government ordered a probe into the violence and "urged everyone to keep religious harmony, peace and security"

2 Christians shot dead in Pakistan for ‘religious reasons,’ says rights...

Witnesses said the attack was a result of a property dispute that turned religious between Christians and Muslims

Hindu radicals attack Christians attending Sunday service in India

Two Ursuline Franciscan nuns were also reported to have been harassed on the same day and forcibly taken to a police station

Interview: Indian priest acquitted of attempting ‘forcible religious conversion’

Father George Mangalapilly, an Indian priest, was recently acquitted of the alleged crime of “forcible religious conversion"

Testimony: A Catholic nun who served in Afghanistan

'We can support the [people of Afghanistan] by providing cultural and civic education to help them live as free people'

Hindu mob attacks church in northern India, 5 reported injured

The frenzied mob destroyed furniture, photographs and musical instruments while shouting slogans hailing the Hindu God Ram

Christian group condemns arrest of Indian pastor over alleged forced conversion

Police arrested Pastor Charlie John on charges of forced conversion for distributing copies of the Bible

Uyghurs in Canada open new mosque in former Toronto Catholic church

The Catholic congregation had been getting older, and church administrators could not afford to keep up the building

Catholic bishop decries Indian gov’t failure to act on attacks on...

Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak was reacting to the death of a 14-year-old Christian Dalit boy as a result of an acid attack

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