Documents and information released for first time today by Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom show that, despite its claims of liberalization, the Government of Vietnam is continuing its repression of Hmong Christians in the northwest provinces of Vietnam.
...continue reading this storyThe Supreme Court last Tuesday (March 28) quietly ruled that conversion of tribal people to Christianity could disqualify them from running for some elective offices if the posts involve religious functions.
...continue reading this storyLess than a year after believers in Vietnam's central Quang Ngai province saw some of their dwellings destroyed, a mob burned down five homes of other Hre minority Christians in the legally-recognized Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South).
...continue reading this storyReligious rights investigators warned Thursday, March 30, that thousands of people in Afghanistan could face execution for converting from Islam to Christianity, a day after Italy granted asylum to a Christian convert.
...continue reading this storyIn a move expected to raise international concerns, the leader of one of India's largest evangelical mission groups was Wednesday, March 29, in a Kota Central Jail of the state of Rajasthan, which has been shaken by religious strife, officials said.
...continue reading this storyHindu extremists broke into a Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center on March 17 in Madhya Pradesh state, beating students and significantly damaging furniture and equipment. YWAM director Mukesh Jacob and his wife have since been charged with illegal conversion under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act.
...continue reading this storyLed by angry Muslim clerics, hundreds of people on Monday, March 27, protested in a northern Afghan city against a decision to free an Afghan man who faced a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity.
...continue reading this storyVoice of the Martyrs contacts in Indonesia report that on March 26, hundreds of radical Muslims converged on the Church of Pentecost in Indonesia (PTDI) in Gunung Putri, Bogor County, West Java during a Sunday morning service. The mob's angry protest over the property being "misused" as a church building lasted five hours. Some of the women among the 190 congregants began crying hysterically as a result of the mob's hostile demonstration, with some falling unconscious and collapsing to the ground.
...continue reading this storyLawyers for three Christian men facing possible execution in Indonesia are planning to seek a presidential pardon and a Supreme Court review of the case because they have new evidence, news reports said Tuesday, March 28.
...continue reading this storyIndian Church officials on Tuesday, March 28, condemned the adoption of anti-conversion legislation in a key state, after members of a US-backed mission group were attacked by Hindu militants for allegedly "illegally" converting people to Christianity.
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