Prior to the hearing of the appeal scheduled for 4 December on the sentencing of three Baptists in Uzbekistan, the European Baptist Federation (EBF) has demanded that the country’s President, Islam Abduganievich Karimov (Tashkent), assure a fair trial. General-Secretary Tony Peck (Prague) and Christer Daelander (Stockholm), Chairman of the EBF’s working group on religious freedom, [...]

Belarusnews.ru informs: nowadays evangelical Christians in Belarus are under surveillance of law-enforcment agencies.
«The situation with the Kagramanyans family in Minsk can serve as an example. One evening a district police officer visited their house. These were the questions he asked: “Are you believers? Are you chruch ministers? What church do you attend? What church are [...]

SFI Information service, specially for Baznica.info, informs: Alexey Beglov, professor of St Philaret’s Orthodox Christian Institute, received Metropolitan Macarius prize, one of the most prestigious award in theology and humanities.
This award was institued by Macarius (Bulgakov) (1816-1882) who was the Metropolitan of Moscow and an internationally recognized scientist. This award was estabplished with the incomes [...]

Christian News portal Invictory.org based on the Barnabas Fund reports: in Bangladesh a husband has beaten up both his daughter Arifa and his wife Khainur for converting to Christianity. It happened when he found out that their son Jahirul had became a Christian. In 2006 Jahirul moved to Sydney, Australia to go to Sydney University. [...]

This year members of Hebrew-speaking catholic congregations of Israel had the second three-day recollections. In these Yom Kippur prayers took part 24 members from different congregations from the whole Israel.
Last year, 13 members from the Haifa community travelled together to Kiryat Yearim during the period of Yom Kippur with the responsible of the [...]

On 23 August in the capital Tashkent twenty Anti-Terror Police officers raided the regular Sunday afternoon worship service of the registered Donam Protestant church, claiming it was “unauthorised”. Some church members were arrested and Christian literature was confiscated. Three men were soon freed but four – including the church’s pastor, Vladimir Tyo – were sentenced [...]

On Kazakhstan town of Uspen police broke into the house where members of the Pavlodar Grace Church were staying. Some visitors were questioned and beaten by police untill they signed a statement saying they had been forced to submit to a religious ritual. The others of the visitors face administrative trial on 31 August. Inspector [...]