November 22, 2010
By Joseph DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent
 BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Officials in Guangzhou have banned "house churches" from holding services while the Chinese city hosts the 16th Asian Games, according to Christians with close knowledge about the situation.
Tags: Asian Games, Guangzhou, House Church, Tang Jingling
Posted in Asia/Pacific, China | No Comments »
November 21, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A disabled Afghan man jailed since May for his Christian faith was to face an Islamic court Sunday, November 21, without legal representation and amid fears he may be executed for converting to Christianity, trial observers confirmed.
Tags: Abdul Sattar Khawasi, Kabul, Noorin TV, Said Musa
Posted in Afghanistan, Asia/Pacific | 5 Comments »
November 20, 2010
By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent reporting from India
 LUDHIANA, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A major evangelical group has urged the government of India's Punjab state to protect minority Christians after Hindu militants allegedly attacked a church and injured at least one Christian, BosNewsLife learned Saturday, November 20.
Tags: Bharatiya, Bindeshwar, Evangelical Fellowship India, Munna, Richard Howell
Posted in Asia/Pacific, India | 1 Comment »
November 19, 2010
By BosNewsLife Correspondents Stefan J. Bos and Joseph C. DeCaro
 JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- Indonesia will put on trial over a dozen Islamic hard-liners who were allegedly involved in a September attack on two leaders of the Batak Christian Protestant Church just outside Indonesia's capital Jakarta, BosNewsLife monitored Friday, November 19.
Tags: Batak, Christian Protestant, Church, Luspida Simandjuntak
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Indonesia | No Comments »
November 18, 2010
By Joseph C. DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent
 NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Two years after losing relatives and property in anti-Christian violence that killed over 100 people, survivors in India's Orissa state are still being pressured to "return" to Hinduism, according to a human rights investigation.
Tags: Hindu, Hinduism, Kandhamal, Lawlessness
Posted in Asia/Pacific, India | No Comments »
November 17, 2010
By Joseph C. DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent with BosNewsLife Middle East Service
 BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in northern Iraq mourned a Christian father and his 6-year-old daughter Wednesday, November 17, after they were killed in a bomb attack, the latest in a string of strikes against the country's dwindling Christian population.
Tags: Fayez al-Shamani, Mosul, Security, Tahrir
Posted in Iraq, Middle East | No Comments »
November 16, 2010
By Joseph C. DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent
 MINSK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A pastor in Belarus was fined for alleged unsanitary conditions at his church's summer Bible school while another church in Minsk must exist without a legal bank account, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, November 16.
Tags: Grace, Khodorovich, Nikolai Borichevsky, Pentecostal Church
Posted in Belarus, CIS (ex-USSR) | No Comments »
November 15, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife at BosNewsLife News Center with BosNewsLife Asia Service
 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Relatives of a Pakistani Christian mother sentenced to death for "insulting" Islam's Prophet Muhammad have filed an appeal against her conviction, BosNewsLife established Monday, November 15.
Tags: Islamic, Local, Prophet Muhammad, Scripture, Zaibunnisa
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | 1 Comment »
November 14, 2010
By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan
 KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian worker, his Muslim wife and their baby remained in hiding Sunday, November 14, nearly a month after some 20 armed Muslim gunmen allegedly attacked their rented house in an area of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.
Tags: Gulzar Colony, Muqadas Parveen, Naz, Shahbaz Javed
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Pakistan | No Comments »
November 13, 2010
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
 RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Burma's military government on Saturday, November 13, freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent most of the last two decades in detention.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Karen, Liberation, Rebel
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Burma | 2 Comments »
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BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Officials in Guangzhou have banned "house churches" from holding services while the Chinese city hosts the 16th Asian Games, according to Christians with close knowledge about the situation.
