RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (BosNewsLife)-- The teenage son of a Christian missionary in the West Bank territory remained in serious condition Wednesday, March 26, after a package bomb delivered to the family's home went off in his hands, Israeli officials and Christian rights investigators said.

MANDI-BAHAUDDIN, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A tense standoff continued around a Catholic Church compound in Pakistan’s province of Punjab Wednesday, March 26, nearly a month after it was raided and occupied by armed Muslim militants, Christians told BosNewsLife.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, March 25, sworn in a political enemy as prime minister, a move Christian politicians hope will help to achieve more religious freedom for minorities.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, ITALY (BosNewsLife)-- Pope Benedict XVI urged believers on Easter Monday to commemorate the many Christian missionaries who he said were killed last year.

KATHMANDU, NEPAL (BosNewsLife)-- As the countdown began Easter Sunday for their native nation's first parliamentary elections, over 107.000 refugees from Bhutan were still languishing in overcrowded camps in nearby Nepal, Christian aid workers said.

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (BosNewsLife)-- Some fourteen Indian Christians remained detained in Bangladesh Saturday, March 22, weeks after completing a three-month sentence for unwittingly crossing the border while evangelizing, because India has not request their repatriation, news reports said.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The kitchen in her Budapest apartment resembles a ballroom. It’s space 40-year-old Batsheva Oberlander desperately needs to prepare the daily Kosher meal for her husband, an American rabbi, and four children.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Thirteen Hindu militants have been detained for their alleged involvement in raping two Catholic nuns in India's seaside town of Alibag amid fresh warnings that religious violence is increasing across the country, a church advocacy group said Saturday, March 22.

(DUE TO A LARGE NUMBER OF CLICKS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BOSNEWSLIFE DECIDED TO REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE. IT APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JULY 20 2006).UZHHOROD, UKRAINE (BosNewsLife) – In an unprecedented move, about 200 allegedly persecuted residents of the Ukrainian town of Uzhhorod, including Christians, have appealed to Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko to expand the Orange Revolution to this key border region, which they claim is ruled by corrupt officials supported by police, judges and prosecutors.

BAKU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- One of Azerbaijan's two religious prisoners was preparing Friday, March 21, to celebrate Easter at home after he was released under President Ilham Aliev's amnesty to mark the spring festival of Novruz, a major advocacy group confirmed.