RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- A leading religious rights group and dissidents of Burma's democracy movement urged the United Nations Tuesday, July 22, to pressure the military government to improve the rights of minorities, including Christians, at a time of mounting concern about this nation's future.

(ADDS COMMENTS FROM BELGRADE GROUP AND WHITE HOUSE)BELGRADE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Serbia said Monday, July 21, it has detained one of the world's most wanted war crimes suspects, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has been linked to Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

(AS UKRAINE PREPARES FOR A TURBULENT POLITICAL SUMMER, BOSNEWSLIFE RE-PRINTS A KEY STORY BOSNEWSLIFE COVERED IN 2006). CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE (BosNewsLife)-- Fresh flowers in front of a small statue resembling the Virgin Mary revealed that at least some Ukrainians returned Wednesday, April 26, to the 30 kilometers (19 miles) "exclusion zone" around the country's leaking Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded 20 years ago.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- One of China's most respected house church leaders remained homeless Sunday, July 20, with his wife after authorities expelled them from their home in the Chinese capital Beijing for meeting an American Congressional delegation, officials and a rights group said.

MEXICO CITY/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was hope Saturday, July 19, for the release of dozens of evangelical Christian prisoners in Mexico who spent a decade behind bars for their alleged involvement in a massacre, amid mounting evidence they are innocent, an advocacy group involved in the case told BosNewsLife.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The body of a Christian teenager has been hauled out of a canal in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore after he was beaten to death there for courting a Muslim girl, BosNewsLife learned Friday, July 18.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man was hiding Thursday, July 17, after Muslim clerics in Pakistan's Punjab province threatened to kill him for marrying a Muslim woman, while two Christian girls in the same region were forced to marry their Muslim kidnappers, rights investigators and local Christians said.

ISTANBUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Wednesday, July 16, that Turkish authorities were involved in last year's murder of three evangelical Christians at a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya.

KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm returned Tuesday, July 15, to the outskirts of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, after several Christians, including a pastor, were injured when Muslim militants stormed a Protestant church during a prayer service, officials told BosNewsLife.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States President George W. Bush on Monday, July 14, condemned Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and China for violations of religious rights, saying thousands of people are suffering and "languish in the nation's" jails, but noted some progress in Communist-run Vietnam.