WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (BosNewsLife)-- United States President George W. Bush was under pressure Wednesday, September 24, to tackle escalating anti-Christian violence in India, ahead of his upcoming talks with the Indian prime minister in Washington.

BEJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A closed-door trial in China will decide this week whether evangelical Pastor Zhang Zhongxin must continue serving a two-year forced labor sentence for his activities related to evangelism and training Christian missionaries, an advocacy group said Wednesday, September 24.

MOSUL, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities were under pressure Wednesday, September 24, to investigate the death of at least four Christians in the Iraqi town of Mosul, amid signs of a fresh wave of anti-Christian violence in Iraq.

RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Burma's military on Tuesday, September 23, released the country's longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, after he spent 19 years in prison.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- India's worst violence against Christians in years continued this weekend with reports that several Christians were murdered or raped, while churches were desecrated by mobs of Hindu extremists.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christian legislators have survived a suicide bombing that rocked the Marriot Hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, but up to 70 people including several US soldiers and the Czech ambassador died, officials told BosNewsLife Monday, September 22.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Hindu militants in India ransacked three churches near the city of Bangalore Sunday, September 21, the latest in a series of anti-Christian attacks in this predominantly Hindu nation, officials said.

BUDAPEST/BAKU (BosNewsLife)-- Azerbaijan's Baptist "prisoner of conscience", Pastor Hamid Shabanov, was preparing Saturday, September 20, to serve another two months in prison after a judge ordered his sentence to be extended during a closed hearing, Christians and a rights group said.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tens of thousands of people were expected to protest against the government's alleged inaction to detain those responsible for recent anti-Christian violence in several Indian states in which dozens were killed, organizers said Friday, September 19.

SOUL/ PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korean Christians fear government backed persecution will continue, despite reports that the country's ruler, Kim Jong Il, is very ill, BosNewsLife learned Thursday, September 18.