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, [...]

The human rights tour in support of Belarus, arranged by a society “The Other Europe” and “Libery of Faith continued”. In Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday took place a meeting with local Christian intellectuals. On the meeting conversation turned to creation of a prayer chain around Baltic sea. The participants of the chain would pray for [...]

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On November 19-20 in Tallin (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) a Belarussian human rights advocate, expert of the Humanitarian Technologies Agency (Minsk), Denis Hil made a speach. The subject of the meeting was a presentation of the report about problem of faith right violations in Belarus.
Representatives of Finish and Baltic public organizations took part in [...]

The Belarus United Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith (earlier the Belarus Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith) that numbers about 500 registered local churches, has appealed to the President of Belarus. The situation in Novopolotsk shows the officials’ slyness and injustice towards evangelical churches. Belarus Christians appeal to all who is aware of this [...]

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 [...]

Washington, 29th October, Blagovest-info: Radio Free Europe informs that the U.S. government has issued annual report on religious freedom around the world.
At the report’s release on October 26 in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it the “world’s most comprehensive survey of religious freedom.” “This report examines how governments in 198 countries and territories [...]

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. [...]

International Research conference was held on October 21-22st, 2009 at Volgograd State University. The conference was supported by Advisory council with the Representative of Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Volgograd Region Administration and Russian Association of Religious scholars.
At the conference Russian and foreign scientists shared their research results in the area of interreligious and [...]