By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

ASHGABAT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Pentecostal pastor remained in police custody Tuesday, August 31, in Turkmenistan where he faces five years imprisonment and confiscation of properties for "large-scale swindling", charges his wife and church members strongly deny, rights activists said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (BosNewsLife)-- Amid death threats, over a dozen members of the Mengen tribe in the jungles of Papua New Guinea were baptized after "testifying their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," missionaries told BosNewsLife Monday, August 30.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants have killed three American Christian aid workers who were helping victims of Pakistan's worst floods in recent memory, a well-informed source in the Pakistani military told BosNewsLife Saturday, August 28.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service

SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea released an American Christian Friday, August 27, seven months after he was detained for illegally entering the reclusive state to protest reported human rights abuses.



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By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan

LAHORE PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The parents of a Christian Pakistani girl were still searching for their daughter Thursday, August 26, nearly half a year after she was reportedly kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim men, and pressured into embracing Islam.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service

PYONGYANG/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea Wednesday, August 25, to try to win the release of a devoted American Christian who has been jailed for illegally entering the isolated state earlier this year. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, aged 30 from Boston, Massachusetts, entered North Korea on January 25 to protest human rights abuses in the communist nation, fellow rights activists said.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service

ADDIS ABABA/MOGADISHU (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known church leader from the unrecognized African state of Somaliland required medical treatment Tuesday, August 24, after he survived an attack by two Muslim extremists in neighboring Ethiopia, rights activists said

By Joseph C. DeCaro, BosNewsLife Special Corespondent

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly a dozen injured Egyptian Christians, known as Copts, were recovering Monday, August 23, after they were attacked by an angry Muslim mob in the village of Shimi, a church leader and local Christians said.

By Marshall Ramsey, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Christian house church pastors remeined behind bars Sunday, August 22, a week after they and some members of their congregation were attacked and arrested for preaching the Gospel in India, Christians said.