JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- Israel's government on Sunday, May 27, pledged to increase military strikes against militants after the second deadly Palestinian

KIEV/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Ukraine's main political archrivals, the pro-Western president Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich agreed Sunday, May 27, to hold early elections in

KHARTOUM, SUDAN (BosNewsLife)-- There are concerns that minority Christians in Sudan's volatile western region of Darfur do not receive aid because of discrimination, but

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The trial of an 84-year old Christian accused of blasphemy was to start Saturday, May 26, amid fears he could face the death penalty, the group defending him told BosNewsLife.

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Hundreds of indigenous missionaries and other believers in North Africa's expanding underground churches are "constantly in danger of persecution, imprisonment, and death," amid Muslim extremism in the region, a mission group said Friday, May 25.

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egyptian authorities have released a Christian convert from Islam who had been jailed without charges under Egypt’s controversial emergency laws for the past two years, a Christian news agency reported Thursday, May 24.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A major Christian mission group in India expressed hope on Thursday, May 24, that at least "thousands of Dalit Christians" and Muslims will receive the same "affirmative action benefits" as India's majority Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh religion followers, after recommendations by a government advisory body.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- Israeli security forces detained 33 "senior members" of the militants group Hamas, including government officials of the Palestinian Authority, the army said Thursday, May 24.

BELGRADE, SERBIA (BosNewsLife)-- A Serbian court on Wednesday, May 23, found a dozen men guilty of involvement in the 2003 assassination of Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister since World War Two.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife) -- Iraqi Chaldean Priest Nawzat P. Hanna was unexpectedly released by suspected Islamic militants in Baghdad after three days of captivity when he was apparently beaten, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, May 23.