SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian truck driver remained in hiding Thursday, October 25, after Muslim extremists threatened him and his family with death unless he recants his faith in Christ, BosNewsLife learned.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese Christians remained concerned Thursday, October 25, about the health situation of a prominent Beijing pastor amid reports he was beaten again by security forces after being discharged from Tiantan Hospital.

ASMARA/COPENHAGEN (BosNewsLife)-- An Eritrean Christian gospel singer who was tortured and detained without charge for two years in Eritrea spent another day in freedom Thursday, October 25, after she received asylum in Denmark.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- Israeli police remained clueless Thursday, October 25, after suspected Jewish extremists set fire to the American-backed Jerusalem Baptist Church (JBC) in West Jerusalem, raising concerns about growing tensions between Orthodox Jews and the country's tiny Christian minority.

ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's central government will deploy more police to the nation's troubled state of Kaduna "to fight crime", after two Christians were reportedly killed there by suspected Muslim militants, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, October 24.

ST. PETERSBURG/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Seventh-day Adventist Christians and their supporters gathered in the Russian town of St. Petersburgs to unveil a monument commemorating Adventists killed under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, BosNewsLife monitored Wednesday, October 24.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A major Hungarian Reformed church on Tuesday, October 23, held a controversial gathering in Budapest involving the extremist Magyar Garda, or Hungarian Guard, after 19 people were injured in clashes between far right activists and police.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- An influential mission group working in the former Soviet Union said Tuesday, October 23, that evangelical churches are growing in predominantly Islamic Uzbekistan, despite reports of a government-backed crackdown on Christian activities in the former Soviet republic.

BAKU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan is facing a two-year prison sentence in a forced labor camp, after an appeals court refused to overturn the conviction, a rights group monitoring the case confirmed to BosNewsLife Tuesday, October 23.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- The dead body of an apparently raped and murdered Dalit Christian woman was found in "a thicket of shrubs’" in India's Kerala state, rights investigators confirmed Monday, October 22.