NEW DELHI, INDIA — Christians on Sunday, August 26, managed to free an evangelical pastor who was kidnapped by Hindu militants in Bangalore, India’s third most populous city, shortly after he was beaten and nearly killed, an official told BosNewsLife.

Pastor Mark Jaikumar, 43, was kidnapped in Bangalore late Saturday, August 25, and “taken in a bus by Hindu radicals who drugged him” before driving him to [the town of] Shakleshpur”, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) from the city, confirmed Sajan George, president of the Bangalore-based Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), a major advo

UZBEKISTAN — A small Baptist congregation in Uzbekistan is under fire again from authorities.

The charge is failing to comply with a mandatory registration requirement. The church flock in Khalkabad near Pap in the eastern Namangan Region of Uzbekistan was harassed four years ago for not registering its activities with authorities.

Uzbekistan is in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan.

Local Baptists told Forum 18 News Service that police raided Sunday services on July 29 and August 5.

CBNNews.com – It’s a story that is occurring every day in Iraq: families attacked because of their faith and forced to leave their homes and loved ones.

“I cried when I saw my father beaten. My mom was crying too. The wanted to take our house. They hit my dad,” Farah, an Iraqi child refugee, said.

The United Nations estimates roughly 4 million people have been displaced by sectarian fighting in Iraq.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, August 21 :– Local Muslims in Nilphamari district and Islamist missionaries from abroad are hauling recently converted Christians to mosques and forcing them to return to Islam, area sources said.

Evangelist and pastor Sanjoy Roy said the Muslims have forced 27 recently baptized Christians to return to Islam. Another 14 recently converts are still facing incessant pressure to return to Islam from villagers and from Muslim missionaries called Tabligh Jamat.

“The Muslims are still threatening us and saying that they will change our faith,” Roy told News.

AUSTRALIA :– Iran’s Islamic theocracy was created through the union of Shi’ite activism and Marxist revolutionary thought. In Iran Christianity is severely repressed. Citizens who are “born” Christian (non-Persians: traditionally-Christian ethnic minorities such as Armenians and Assyrians) are “protected” (graciously permitted to live) as long as they remain subjugated.

DAVANGERE, KARNATAKA, INDIA :– A group of 30 Hindu radicals from the Rastriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS) organization, attacked 18 Bible school students, who were on an evening walk at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 21.

The problems for the students began as they were walking and, suddenly a stranger approached Pastor Ganga Naik, one of the Bible school teachers, and enquired what they are doing in this area.