2,000 Evicted Pakistani Christians Fear Death And Infection, aid workers say
August 20, 2009By BosNewsLife Asia Service
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Some 2,000 Christians in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, many of whom were evicted from their homes, face the prospect of “dying from dehydration, infection or the cumulative effects of poverty” Christian aid workers told BosNewsLife Thursday, August 20. 
SOPRONPUSZTA, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the site Wednesday, August 19, where exactly 20 years ago Hungary briefly opened its border with Austria, allowing over 600 refugees to flee to the West. 
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Two members of the Laojie Christian Church in the village of Sangdong in China's Henan province have been detained, just days after authorities officially banned their church for a second time, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, August 18. 
HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A Pastor’s wife who miscarried after a neighbour attacked her was due to facing a Cuban court Monday, August 17, on charges of “disturbing the public order” on that day, an international advocacy group said. 
BANGALORE, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in India's southern state of Karnataka remained concerned Sunday, August 16, about the whereabouts of eight pastors who were detained this week after Hindu militants broke up a major Christian training meeting, injuring and "humiliating" several believers, including women, church representatives said. 
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungarian Catholic Priest Imre Kozma seems a humble man. Yet the priest made world news when his Budapest church and the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service he founded accommodated tens of thousands of East German refugees in 1989, when Germany was still a divided nation. 
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Twenty men, most of them evangelical Christians, were free Friday, August 14, after spending more than a decade in prison as Mexico's Supreme Court overturned their sentences in a massacre in southern Chiapas state. 
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Somalia faced a tense day Thursday, August 13, amid fresh reports that fighters of the country's main Islamic insurgent group al-Shabab beheaded four Christian aid workers for refusing to renounce their faith in Christ. 
TEHRAN/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Iran has detained dozens of Christians in the last two weeks, including former Muslims, and at least eight of them remain imprisoned, a well-informed advocacy group told BosNewsLife Wednesday, August 12. 
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Turkish Christians remain concerned about rising nationalism and hostility towards non-Muslims in Turkey, following the killing of a Christian businessman and the attack against an evangelist, BosNewsLife monitored Tuesday, August 11. 