Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by noisy crowds outside Downing Street, in protest at ongoing religious persecution in India..

The distribution of literature by three Baptist Christians could be considered a picket. 

A LGBT group reported the evangelistic content to the police. The two men will appeal the veredict that condemns them to pay 1,500 Euros in fines.

“Don't let David Cameron turn you into an extremist”, the unusual coalition of campaigners says. They hope to stop plans to introduce Extremism Disruption Orders (EDOs) in the UK.

The Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union’s Sakharov prize for human rights.

Egyptian police raided Sat-7 channel’s Cairo offices, confiscating equipment and detaining its office director. He was later released pending verdict.

Evangelical groups fear “legitimisation of persecution”. 3,000 Baptist churches write to Putin: “If the country’s laws are in conflict with the Bible… Christians will always take the biblical position”.

No evangelical Christians are allowed to enter La Chachalacan. They even have signs announcing it.

Pastor attacked by extremists: “I asked one police officer why they did not intervene when the mob beat us up right in front of the police station. He replied that it was not his duty to intervene outside the police station.”

“We are very quick to criticise street preachers”, says British street preacher who faces a retrial at the end of July. 

If attacks were to recur, would it not be appropriate to ask the LGBT community not to hide, and to speak up in defence of freedom of expression and conscience for every citizen? 

After 7 years, authorities approved the project propelled by a Filipino expat livig in the country. There are about 1,200 evangelical believers in Qatar.

Jaume Llenas (Spanish Evangelical Alliance) analyses the difficulties believers face in Europe when trying to participate in the public arena. “We need to reach society not only with arguments, but with a new narrative.”

The attacks to evangelical communities are recurrent in Mexico since 2012, but the state government remained silent.

MEPs ask the EU to clearly promote freedom of belief in its external action. European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion and Belief introduced its first annual report on the state of religion in the world.

Both were arrested in the UK after being accused of using “homophobic language.” One of them has been preaching publicly for more than 11 years.

Students at Aberystwyth University have voted to remove thousands of Bibles from its residence because they considered it “uncomfortable” or “unacceptable.”

Global press freedom is at its lowest rate in more than 10 years. Only one in seven people around the world live in countries with a free press.

The report tells of the takeover of Crimea by Russian troops in February 2014 and their deployment to aid separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The City of Calvin banned religious activities on the streets last September. Local court now condemns council for “disproportionate decision.”

They are the first national association of evangelical congregations to take a position in favour of death penalty repeal. Many Catholic groups support them.

Pro-gay groups and some companies, Apple among them, say the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is discriminatory.

Mike Overd was told that he should not have quoted from Leviticus 20:13 when speaking about homosexuality.

Christianity is the most persecuted religion: in 102 of the 198 countries included in a Pew Research study, Christians face restrictions and hostility because of their faith.

In France, the timely “Libre de le dire” campaign adds an Evangelical voice to the debate about freedom of religion and ‘Laicité’. Jurist Nancy Lefèvre thinks the pressure from politicians and the media causes Christians to be “unsure about their rights”.