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Turkmenistan Pentecostal Pastor Faces Five Years Imprisonment

August 31, 2010

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

ASHGABAT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Pentecostal pastor remained in police custody Tuesday, August 31, in Turkmenistan where he faces five years imprisonment and confiscation of properties for "large-scale swindling", charges his wife and church members strongly deny, rights activists said.

Uzbekistan Jails Baptists, Threatens Church, report

August 7, 2010

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Marshall Ramsey with BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Police in Uzbekistan reportedly jailed ten Baptists for up to five days and fined three others 80 times the monthly minimum wage on charges of unauthorized worship at home, BosNewsLife monitored Friday, August 7.

Killed Pastor Buried In Russia’s Dagestan Region

July 23, 2010

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest

MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Friends and family have buried the assassinated pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Russia's volatile Dagestan region, Christian missionaries told BosNewsLife Friday, July 23.

BREAKING NEWS: Pentecostal Pastor Shot Dead In Dagestan

July 16, 2010

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

MAKHACHKALA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Russia's violent, mainly Muslim republic of Dagestan, has died after being shot in the head, in an apparent bid to intimidate converts from Islam, Christian rights activists and police said Friday, July 16.

NEWS WATCH: Russian President Shows “New World Currency” At G-8 Summit

June 22, 2010

By George Whitten, Jerusalem Bureau Chief

MOSCOW/AQUILA (BosNewsLife) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for a new global currency to replace the dollar as the World's Reserve Currency.

BREAKING NEWS: Kyrgyzstan Christians Receiving Death Threats As Ethnic Violence Kills 190

June 17, 2010

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

OSH/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Kyrgyz Christians were risking their lives Thursday, June 17, to help and shelter Uzbek believers in southern Kyrgystan, where ethnic clashes killed at least 190 people, injured 1,800 others and uprooted some 400,000 residents, Christian aid workers said.

NEWS WATCH: Kyrgyzstan Leaders Urge Calm Amid New Bloodshed

June 11, 2010

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

BISHKEK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- New clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan have killed dozens of people and wounded more than 500 in the city of Osh, a little over two months after the uprising that toppled the Central Asian nation's former government. The United States and Russia - both of which have military bases in Kyrgyzstan - and China are watching the situation with concern.

Evangelical Group Condemns Uzbekistan Crackdown On Churches

June 1, 2010

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest

thumb_1201293150385_0p8541201605507683TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- An influential evangelical organization, which claims to represent over 400 million Christians worldwide, expressed concerns Tuesday, June 1, about police raids on Protestant congregations in Uzbekistan and the detention of several Christians in the former Soviet republic.

NEWS ALERT: Uzbekistan Jails Protestant Christians

May 19, 2010

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest

120px-Islam_Karimov_(2009)BUDAPEST/TASHKENT (BosNewsLife)-- An assistant pastor and two other members of one of Uzbekistan capital's largest Protestant churches began serving 15-day jail terms Wednesday, May 19, on charges that included "violating" strict religious regulations of the former Soviet nation, trial observers said.

Uzbekistan Police Raid Church Feeding Homeless

April 21, 2010

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST-- Police in Uzbekistan broke up a Protestant youth conference, detaining dozens of Christians, and separately
raided and Protestant church feeding homeless people for allegedly violating local regulations, a religious rights group said Wednesday,
April 21.