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Police raid church in Uzbekistan during worship

Police raided a church in southern Uzbekistan during a worship service and detained 10 worshippers after beating and using electric shock prods on some individuals, Forum 18 reported.

04/17/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mayflower Church begins new life in Texas

The Easter promise of new life holds special meaning for members of a persecuted Chinese church who arrived in Texas on Good Friday, in preparation for resettlement with the help of Tyler-area churches.

04/10/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Bulletin: Mayflower Church slated to land in Texas

Members of the Mayflower Church—a group of Chinese Christians who have been living in Thailand—are on a flight scheduled to arrive in Texas on Good Friday evening.

04/07/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Kachin Baptist leader sentenced to six years in prison

On Good Friday, the international community learned a Burmese court sentenced the former president of the Kachin Baptist Convention to six years in prison.

04/07/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mayflower Church not deported but fined and detained

Authorities in Thailand fined but did not immediately deport members of a persecuted Chinese church, but the Christians continue to be detained three days after their deportation hearing.

04/03/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mayflower Church members face deportation to China

Chinese Christians who have been living in Thailand after fleeing persecution in their native country have been arrested, and they face a March 31 hearing that could result in their deportation.

03/30/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

TBM provides shelters for families in Turkey

Texas Baptist Men volunteers will journey to Turkey the first week in April to help build shelters for families who lost their homes in the Feb. 6 earthquake.

03/27/2023 - By Ferrell Foster / Texas Baptist Men

Former Russian Baptist leader prays for Ukrainian resolve

A former Russian Baptist union leader, speaking from Moscow, voiced an apology for his countrymen who are “participants in this crime against Ukraine.”

03/21/2023 - By Art Toalston / Baptist Press

Russian religious persecution grows during war on Ukraine

Russia has amplified its persecution of Christians, Muslims and Jews in its war on Ukraine, participants in a U.S. government hearing said March 15.

03/20/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

USCIRF: India’s anti-conversion laws violate human rights

India’s anti-conversion laws violate international human rights standards and worsen already-poor religious freedom conditions in India, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom stated.

03/14/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

More orphans at risk due to Russian war on Ukraine

Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine has added more children to an initial count of 100,000 Ukrainian orphans at risk of abduction, sex trafficking, criminal adoption and long-term trauma.

03/10/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Pastor Nadarkhani among prisoners released in Iran

Long-persecuted Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is among at least three Christian prisoners released in Iran’s national amnesty marking the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

03/09/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press