BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (BosNewsLife)-- There were no signs Sunday, April 20, that the European Union would step up efforts to accept Iraqi Christians fleeing Iraq a day after thousands of people demonstrated outside EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A bookstore owner in Beijing was still behind bars Saturday, April 19, a month after he was re-arrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature, his wife said.

(DUE TO A LARGE NUMBER OF CLICKS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BOSNEWSLIFE DECIDED TO REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE. IT APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FEBRUARY 09, 2008).UZHHOROD, UKRAINE (BosNewsLife)-- The mayor of Uzhhorod, a key-border town in Ukraine, has fled after special police forces surrounded his headquarters as part of an investigation into his alleged involvement in persecuting citizens, including Christians fighting corruption, witnesses told BosNewsLife Saturday, February 9.

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Four Christian teachers, two of them converts from Islam, have been murdered by Islamic militants in south-central Somalia, a well-informed Christian rights group confirmed Friday, April 18.

HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- One of Cuba's youngest "prisoners of conscience" was recovering Friday, April 18, after he was nearly strangled to death by a fellow prisoner, while security personnel watched nearby, pro-democracy activists and family said.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese security forces detained dozens of House Church Christians in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, forcing them to show allegiance to the government as part of crackdown similar to a campaign against Buddhist monks in nearby Tibet, rights watchers said Thursday, April 17.

KATHMANDU, NEPAL (BosNewsLife)-- A leading Christian rights group said Thursday, April 17, that elections in Nepal had generally been "peaceful and fair" but added it hopes a new constitution to be written by elected legislators will respect "full religious freedom" among other human rights.

HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)-- Israel has presented one of its highest honors to the Netherlands’ Ten Boom family with a certificate posthumously honoring two of its members for saving nearly 800 Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The European Union and several key Danube organizations are urging countries along the river Danube to prevent "irreversible" damage to the waterway, warning the growing pollution could endanger drinking water for some 80 million people.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Shortly after condemning sexual abuse within his Church, Pope Benedict XVI met President George W. Bush, who urged the pontiff to help America understand that "life is sacred" and the need for religious freedom.