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November 30, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- The wife of Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights lawyer under house arrest in China's Shandong province, has urged the international community to intervene, amid concerns about his health.
Tags: Chen, Health, Shandong, Treatment
Posted in Asia/Pacific, China | No Comments »
November 29, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists asked Vietnam Monday, November 29, to release pastors who received long prison terms on charges of “undermining national unity."
Tags: Kpa Y Co, Ksor Y Du, Mission, Phu Yen, Vietnam Good News
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Vietnam | No Comments »
November 28, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-– A Christian teenager "wrongly" convicted of “blasphemy” against Islam was still recovering Sunday, November 28, after Muslim inmates nearly stoned him to death in a prison in Pakistan's northwest Punjab province, Christians and medics said.
Tags: District Hospital, Dr. Sultan Malik, Imran Masih, Inmates, Intensive Care Unit, Punjab
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | 1 Comment »
November 27, 2010
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service
 BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife) — Iraq said Saturday, November 27, that its security forces have detained a dozen militants suspected of helping take Christians hostage in a church siege that killed scores of worshipers and two priests last month.
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Baghdad, Cathedral, Coptic Church, Detonation, Egypt, Explosive, Invasion, Militants, Mosul, Pope Benedict XVI, Saad Hanna, Tahrir, Waad Hanna
Posted in Iraq, Middle East | No Comments »
November 27, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm remained Saturday, November 27, in several villages of India's troubled state of Orissa after Hindu militants reportedly attacked local Christians as police forces watched nearby.
Tags: Authorities, Displaced, Druga, ETV-2, Festival, Hindu, International Christian Concern, Jonathan Racho, Malkangiri, Militants, Orissa, Radicals, Telarai
Posted in Asia/Pacific, India | 2 Comments »
November 26, 2010
By BosNewsLife Middle East and African Services
 CAIRO/JERUSALEM (BosNewsLife)-- There was international concern Friday, November 26, over the situation of 80 Eritrean refugees who rights activists said have been held hostage by people smugglers on the Egypt-Israel border for about a month.
Tags: Border, Government, Refugees, Sinai, Solidarity
Posted in Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Middle East | 5 Comments »
November 25, 2010
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
 CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egypt's attorney general has reportedly ordered the detention of 156 Christian protesters following deadly clashes with riot police in a suburb of the capital Cairo where authorities halted construction of a church, BosNewsLife monitored Thursday, November 25.
Tags: Cairo, Church, Copt, Coptic, Giza
Posted in Egypt, Middle East | No Comments »
November 25, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with BosNewsLife Asia Service
 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari will not immediately pardon a Christian who has been sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam, an official reportedly said Thursday, November 25.
Tags: Asia Bibi, Asif Ali Zardari, Mother, President
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | No Comments »
November 24, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent
 TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A detained pastor of a major network of Christian house churches in Iran will be executed by hanging for "apostasy", or abandoning Islam, according to translated court documents seen by BosNewsLife Wednesday, November 24.
Tags: Assize, Gilan, House Church, Youcef, Yousef Nadarkhani
Posted in Iran, Middle East | 4 Comments »
November 23, 2010
(ADDS NEW EXPECTED TRIAL DATE, MORE DETAILS, COMMENTS ADVOCACY GROUP JUBILEE CAMPAIGN USA)
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Afghanistan has postponed the trial of a disabled man who faces the death penalty for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, trial observers and officials said Tuesday, November 23.
Tags: Abdul Rahman, Converts, ICC, Said Musa, Sayed Mossa
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Asia/Pacific, Middle East | 1 Comment »
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