August 30, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (BosNewsLife)-- Amid death threats, over a dozen members of the Mengen tribe in the jungles of Papua New Guinea were baptized after "testifying their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," missionaries told BosNewsLife Monday, August 30.
Tags: Mengen, Preheim, Shaman, Unsaved
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August 29, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Eight arrested Christians remained in Vietnamese police custody Sunday, August 29, after a violent government crackdown on Christian villagers in which one person was killed and several others injured, including a pregnant woman who lost her child, rights activists said.
Tags: Con Dau, Da Nang, Le Thi Van
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August 28, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants have killed three American Christian aid workers who were helping victims of Pakistan's worst floods in recent memory, a well-informed source in the Pakistani military told BosNewsLife Saturday, August 28.
Tags: Atif-ur-Rehman, Military, Mingora, Swat
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | 11 Comments »
August 27, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea released an American Christian Friday, August 27, seven months after he was detained for illegally entering the reclusive state to protest reported human rights abuses.
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Tags: Aijalon Gomes, Christians, Jimmy Carter, Korea
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August 26, 2010
By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan
LAHORE PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The parents of a Christian Pakistani girl were still searching for their daughter Thursday, August 26, nearly half a year after she was reportedly kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim men, and pressured into embracing Islam.
Tags: Ali Akbar, Parents, Samina Ayub, Surriya Bibi
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August 25, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
PYONGYANG/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea Wednesday, August 25, to try to win the release of a devoted American Christian who has been jailed for illegally entering the isolated state earlier this year. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, aged 30 from Boston, Massachusetts, entered North Korea on January 25 to protest human rights abuses in the communist nation, fellow rights activists said.
Tags: Boston, Carter, Christians, Mahli
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August 22, 2010
By Marshall Ramsey, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Christian house church pastors remeined behind bars Sunday, August 22, a week after they and some members of their congregation were attacked and arrested for preaching the Gospel in India, Christians said.
Tags: House, K.R.Nagar, Karnataka, Pastors
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August 17, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with reporting from Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Up to 200,000 Christians are among the millions impacted by deadly flooding in Pakistan BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, August 17, but the United Nations warned that only a fraction of flood victims have received any help.
Tags: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, World Bank
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August 16, 2010
By George Whitten, BosNewsLife Senior International Correspondent
SEOUL/JERUSALEM (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea has reportedly executed three Christians who were meeting in an underground church, BosNewsLife monitored Monday, August 16. Twenty others attending the same worship service were sent to notorious labor camps, said well-informed Catholic news service AsiaNews.
Tags: AsiaNews, Kuwal-dong, North Korea, Pyongan Province
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August 14, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights investigators have urged the international community to reject plans by
Burma’s military rulers to organize parliamentary elections on November 7.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Junta, Media, U.N.
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Burma | 1 Comment »
