March 31, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST/BELGRADE (BosNewsLife)-- Serbia's parliament has apologized for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. But, the declaration does not directly call the crime "genocide", as survivors had demanded.
Tags: Bosnian-Serb, Genocide, Srebrenica, Survivors
Posted in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe | No Comments »
March 30, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
HANOI, VIETNAM (
BosNewsLife)-- A Vietnamese Christian lawyer and dissident has

pledged to continue her fight for more democracy in the Comnunist-run Asian nation, after leaving prison where she spent three years for challenging the authorities and advocating a multi-party government, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, March 30.
Tags: Le Thi Cong Nhan, Protestant, Thanh Hoa
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Vietnam | No Comments »
March 30, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- One of China's best known Christian dissidents, missing for over a year and feared dead, is apparently alive and staying in mountains known for Buddhist pilgrimages, BosNewsLife monitored Tuesday, March 30.
Tags: Buddhist, Christian, Dissident, Gao Zhisheng
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March 29, 2010
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with reporting from Moscow
MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- At least 37 people died when two female suicide bombers attacked two different locations at Moscow's underground metro system, including near the Kremlin, Russian officials and witnesses said Monday, March 29.
Tags: Blasts, Metro, Moscow, Suicide
Posted in CIS (ex-USSR), Europe, Russia | No Comments »
March 28, 2010
By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Evangelical Christians in central and southern India were worshiping Sunday, March 28, amid threats from suspected Hindu militants who reportedly attacked a Christian youth center, churches and pastors.
Tags: Central, Chhattisgarh, Durg, Students
Posted in Asia/Pacific, India | No Comments »
March 27, 2010
By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Police were investigating Saturday, March 27, attacks by suspected Hindu activistson a Roman Catholic school and, separately, a pastor and his companion near India's capital New Delhi which injured at least three people, Christian rights activists said.
Tags: Carmel Convent School, Faridabad, Masih, New Delhi
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | No Comments »
March 26, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent Santosh Digal
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian preacher of one of India's oldest mission organizations hasbeen held in a prison in India's volatile Orissa state since December over allegations that he has links with a militant group, evangelical leaders said Friday, March 26.
Tags: Militants, Orissa, Preacher, Samantray, War Group
Posted in Asia/Pacific, India | 1 Comment »
March 25, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Police in Pakistan's province of Punjab have launched an investigation into reports that Muslim extremists killed a Christian for refusing to convert to Christianity. It comes at a time when Christians in the region are also prosecuted for alleged blasphemy against Islam.
Tags: Arshed Masih, Khanewal, Muslims, Rasheed Masih
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | 1 Comment »
March 24, 2010
By BosNewsLife Africa Service

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Somalia's feared Islamic militant group al-Shabab has warned Christians and other residents that it will crackdown on "non-Islamic culture" across the country, after its fighters reportedly killed another Christian leader and destroyed a tomb of a moderate Muslim cleric.
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Somalia's feared Islamic militant group al-Shabab has warned Christians and other residents that it will crackdown on "non-Islamic culture" across the country, after its fighters reportedly killed another Christian leader and destroyed a tomb of an apparently moderate Muslim cleric.
Tags: Al-Shabab, Islamic, Madobe Abdi, Mahaday
Posted in Africa, Somalia | 7 Comments »
March 24, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan
RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN-- Hundreds of people attended the funeral Wednesday of a young Christian man who was allegedly burned by Muslim extremists and police officers for refusing to convert of Islam.
Tags: Christians, Extremists, Funeral, Punjab
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | No Comments »