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A third wave of disastrous flooding has swept across India’s Northeast state of Assam. The rising Brahmaputra river has left thousands homeless and...

Five arrests in three cities across Iran in August suggest a continued crackdown on Iranian Christians by authorities, sources told Compass.

Two Christians from Muslim backgrounds were officially charged with apostasy last week at the Public and Revolutionary Court in Shiraz, Iran,...

Asserting that most area Hindus are tolerant and peaceable, victims of ongoing anti-Christian violence in the eastern state of Orissa blamed the...

Beijing Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihanmay be back in court within 10 days, according to Compass sources. Denied proper medication and diet...

When the 11-year-old daughter of Antonio Gomez became ill of a stomach ailment, her father decided that it was due to witchcraft committed by his...

Evangelical leaders say the announcement that GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's teenage daughter is pregnant will not diminish their...

Though a Maoist group today claimed responsibility for killing a Hindu extremist leaderin Orissa state, that hasn't stopped attacks in the...

The manager of a campground in East Jakarta this week asked staff members and 600 female students from a theological college who had taken refuge...

Reports of attacks from the eastern state of Orissa are decreasing, but many rural villages remain cut off from communication and being attacked at...

Fourteen Eritreans in a Saudi detention center have begun a hunger strike to highlight the continuing plight of Eritrean refugees and asylum...

For faith-based organizations, widespread economic woes might seem to have the potential to create a complicated situation. Historically, however,...

When Russian troops pulled back from Gori, Georgia, Aug. 22, a Southern Baptist overseas relief team in Tblisi scrambled to assess the need for...

The killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) leader Swamiji Laxmanananda Saraswati and four associates by suspected Maoists on Aug....

Several organizations, including World Vision and Project HOPE have been serving on the frontlines in Russia. They are actively aiding many people...