Gospel for Asia assists Bangladesh after tropical storm

Gospel for Asia is responding after Tropical Storm Mahasen left thousands of people displaced and homeless in Bangladesh and Burma. The organisation says its initial response will cover a..

Mob demolishes church in India

On March 12 in a southeast India village, the local newspaper published allegations that Divya Jyoti Church had been built on government land. The next day, a crowd equipped with a backhoe..

Bangladesh: Young Christian girls trafficked into forced labour and sex slavery

More than 140 children have been rescued from Islamic training centers (madrassas) in the last nine months, with a majority of the children targeted because of their Christian faith. The females,..

36 dead after Muslim crowds protest for stricter penalties against atheist bloggers

The demonstrators "were very aggressive, some people were throwing stones and the situation quickly become violent ... the police had no option but to respond," one eyewitness told BBC..

Bangladesh in turmoil over proposed anti-blasphemy law

Amid rising political conflict, Bangladeshi Christians are relying on the government to resist the demands of Islamists for the introduction of a new anti-blasphemy law that could inflame Christian..

India: Christians wounded, jailed, expelled

NEW DELHI - Christians suffered serious head injuries, expulsion from home and incarceration based on false witness as Hindu extremists continued their reign of terror in India this month, sources..