ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Algerian woman may face three years in prison for converting from Islam to Christianity without government permission, Christians close to the case said Friday, May 23.

BUDAPEST/MINSK (BosNewsLife)-- Over 50,000 people in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, many of them Christians, have signed a daring petition calling for a revision of what is seen as Europe's most restrictive religious legislation, a rights group said Thursday, May 22.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly all Christian families in a village on Indonesia’s Seram island, in the religiously volatile Maluku province, were homeless Wednesday, May 21, after a Muslim mob burned their houses and other properties as well as killing four believers and injuring dozens others, investigators told BosNewsLife.

HAFIZABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The wife and six children of a jailed Christian doctor were in hiding Tuesday, May 20, after a mob attacked their house in Pakistan's Punjab province, where he was detained on charges of blasphemy against Islam, which could carry the death penalty.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- As China mourned Monday, May 19, some 34,000 people killed in a massive earthquake, Chinese security forces, operating outside the international media attention, continued a crackdown on underground house churches, Christians said.

ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Algerian Christians have appealed for international "prayers and support" amid a government crackdown on churches and suspected evangelists, a rights group said Monday, May 19.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A former opium addict in Vietnam's Lao Cai Province was without properties Sunday, May 18, after local officials reportedly confiscated his land and home because of his success as an evangelist.

YANGON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian rights group active in Burma "unequivocally condemned" Saturday, May 17, claimed results of a referendum on a new constitution aimed at increasing power of the military junta, which faces social unrest as the cyclone disaster left 134,000 people dead or missing.

YANGON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Teams of indigenous Christian backpack medics working with underground churches attempted Friday, May 16, to reach at least some of the two million survivors of a cyclone that devastated Burma, as the military junta halted international aid efforts amid fears foreign interference could undermine its power base.

WARSAW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly 20 years after Communism and persecution of evangelical Christians ended, Churches in Poland are busy counseling tens of thousands of new believers, BosNewsLife established Thursday, May 15.