By BosNewsLife News Center

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Despite tensions, Baptist Christians in the U.S. state of Tennessee prepared for worship Sunday, February 28, as local police continued to investigate an attack on a church bus by young arsonists.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man remained behind bars Saturday, February 27, after a Pakistani court sentenced him to life imprisonment for making "blasphemous" remarks about the Koran and Islam's prophet Mohammad.

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service

TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor and eight other Christians were behind bars in Iran Friday, February 26, after authorities closed their church as part of a new government crackdown on devoted Christians in the Islamic nation, rights investigators said

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Iraq were mourning Thursday, February 25, members of two christian families who were killed in the northern city of Mosul.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Officials of one of India's largest ecumenical church organizations rushed to the country's Punjab state Wednesday, February 24, after clashes between Christians and Hindus left at least 10 people injured and two churches, several shops and other properties destroyed.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man continued serving a life sentence in Pakistan's Punjab province Tuesday, February 23, on what international rights activists said are "false allegations" of blasphemy.

By BosNewsLife Correspondents Jawad Mazhar and Xavier P. William

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians protested Monday, February 22, in Pakistan's Punjab province against the release on bail of the alleged murderer of a 12-year-old Christian domestic servant, whose casehas come to symbolize mounting tensions between Muslims and Christians here.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service

ASMARA, ERITREA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in a detention camp in Eritrea faced a difficult Sunday, February 21, as news emerged that one of their fellow inmate died of a heart attack in the notorious Alla Military Camp after alleged abuses.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Amsterdam, Netherlands

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)-- The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political row over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was due to submit his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix later Saturday, leaving the future of its 1,600 soldiers stationed there uncertain.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Friday, February 19, that Ethiopian authorities would press "terrorism" charges against a Christian convert who has been detained since May for distributing Bibles and abandoning Islam, well-informed Christians said.