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Asia
A Jerusalem Lost
Melanie Kirkpatrick's 'Escape from North Korea' describes how the country descended into tyranny and madness, and why its people want out.
September 27, 2012
Flight from North Korea
Asia's underground railroad has deeply Christian origins, says journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick.
September 27, 2012
'God's Double Agent'
One-time atheist and now head of ChinaAid, Bob Fu believes China may soon have one of the largest populations of Christians worldwide.
September 13, 2012
Asian American Religiosity
A new survey's findings on the differences between Asians and Asian Americans.
September 10, 2012
Flickers of Hope for Some of the World's Longest Running Persecuted
Home to one of the longest running civil wars in the world, recent gestures offer cautious hope to Burma's Christians.
January 27, 2012
Persecution Prompts Missions Agency to Transform
Operation Mobilization India transforms itself into a local witness.
October 21, 2011
Interview: Chai Ling on Saving China's Daughters
Each day in China, 35,000 baby girls are aborted and 500 women commit suicide. One freedom fighter won't take it any longer.
October 4, 2011
Nepal Agrees to Give Christians a Cemetery
Nepal's small Christian community had formed protests demanding government allocation of land to bury their dead in crowded Kathmandu.
July 12, 2011
From Russia, with Love
Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion offers evangelicals more than an olive branch.
May 4, 2011
Vietnamese Authorities in Hanoi Cancel Luis Palau Easter Celebrations
Local officials prevent events featuring U.S. evangelist Luis Palau.
April 18, 2011
After Japan Earthquake, Groups Question Nuclear Power
Also, several Christian relief agencies are on the ground.
March 18, 2011
Philip Yancey: A Living Stream in the Desert
How the Christian faith will be a subversive—and liberating—influence in the Middle East.
November 12, 2010
The Refugee Pastor That Could
As a teen growing up in Tennessee, Chansamone Saiyasak vowed to return to Thailand. And he did—with remarkable results.
September 1, 2010
Pew Forum Releases Landmark Survey of International Religious Freedom
70 percent of the world lives in areas with high restrictions on religion, report says.
December 16, 2009
China's 'Conscience' Missing in Action
Top Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng vanishes as government stifles dissent.
October 23, 2009
More Than Profit
A business plan with a divine edge has an angle on fighting poverty.
September 18, 2009
Sounds of Silence
Banned Methodist hymn sing indicates Fiji church-state conflict is worsening.
August 25, 2009
Feeding Hope Under a Rogue Regime
Christian outreach to North Koreans helps to keep millions from starving.
August 14, 2009
Were Pakistan's Deadly Gojra Riots Enough to Provoke Change?
Widespread outrage might lead to reconsideration of country's blasphemy law or other reforms.
August 7, 2009
What's in a Name?
Christians in Southeast Asia debate their right to refer to God as Allah.
July 28, 2009
One in the Spirit
Evangelicals look for reconciliation in aftermath of Asia's longest civil war.
July 17, 2009
A Victory in Vietnam
Officials permit massive outdoor Easter gathering for house churches.
May 18, 2009
Q & A: Carl Moeller
The president and CEO of Open Doors USA updated CT on North Korea, which the group ranks as the world's worst persecutor of Christians.
April 20, 2009
World's Worst Persecutor 
Will U.S. diplomatic shift and Graham visit help Christians?
November 18, 2008
Listening and Learning in the Middle East
What it means to act as an advocate for global engagement.
November 13, 2008
Missions in Crisis
Korean church leaders look back on the 2007 kidnapping that brought Afghanistan ministries to the world's attention.
November 11, 2008
How to Be Un-Born Again
India's biggest radical Hindu group aims to wipe out Christianity through reconversions and violence.
November 10, 2008
U.S. Christian Leaders Protest Anti-Christian Violence in India
Open letter to George W. Bush urges diplomatic action.
November 7, 2008
Managing a Crisis
Relief needs in China and Myanmar are massive—and will likely continue for years.
May 23, 2008
The Problem with Hating Religion
A scholar rescues the reputation of generation of Middle East scholars.
January 22, 2007
Equal-Opportunity Offender
Uzbek government crackdown on Muslims worries evangelicals.
January 18, 2007
Child Sex Tours
The average victim is 14, and Americans make up 25 percent of the customers.
December 29, 2006
Red-Light Rescue
The 'business' of helping the sexually exploited help themselves.
December 29, 2006
God's Word in an Old Light
Philip Jenkins on how global South Christians read the Bible.
December 5, 2006
Chinese scholar to Americans: Let go, and let the church develop in its own way
Missionaries have often tried to recreate their version of church abroad. But for Christianity to flourish in another land, it must adapt in its own way, says Xi Lian on Christianity in China. (Faith & Leadership)
World's 2012 Daniels of the Year: Chinese Christian Activists in Prison
It’s a new day for China’s Communist leadership, but not for the dissidents the government imprisons. They linger in remote jails, beaten, forgotten, and cut off from work, fellowship, friends, and family. WORLD’s 2012 Daniels of the Year are these outspoken Chinese Christians and their long-suffering loved ones. (World)
They Remember Their Martyrs
Whatever Westerners choose to forget, the Pacific martyrdoms remain vividly alive for the thriving churches of those regions, now wholly under local control. Taking China and the Pacific Rim nations together -- Japan's abortive empire of the 1940s -- we count at least 220 million Christians, a tenth of the global total of believers. And they remember their martyrs. (RCR)
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