XUZHOU, China — China consecrated a new bishop in its state-sanctioned Catholic Church Nov. 30, 2006, defying the Vatican’s claim to exclusive authority over the
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has blocked a key piece of reform legislation passed in November 2006 to broaden religious freedoms in
ANKARA, Turkey — A criminal trial against two Turkish Christians accused of "insulting Turkishness" and inciting hatred against Islam grabbed national media coverage as religious
MAMOOSA, India — Two unidentified militants killed a Christian convert from Islam on a busy road in Mamoosa village, Baramulla district, in the terror-stricken Indian
POSO, Indonesia — One of three Muslim extremists on trial for beheading three Christian teenagers in Poso, Indonesia, in October 2005 has admitted his role
DUYANIPUR, Bangladesh — A court in Bangladesh has sentenced two Islamic extremists to death for murdering Abdul Gani Gomes, a Christian convert from Islam, in