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A group of 30 Hindu radicals from the Rastriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS) organization, attacked 18 Bible school students, who were on an evening walk at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 21.

Hindu militants have threatened to burn to death an Indian evangelical pastor and his family if they don't close their Pentecostal church and leave a suburb of Bangalore, India's third largest city, Christian supporters said Monday, August 20.

Tensions remained high Sunday, August 19, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu after a reported crackdown by militants on Dalit Christians in which a pastors' brother and a local official were killed.

Christians and Hindus in northern Pakistan have received dozens of letters threatening them with death if they refuse to become Muslims, church sources and a police official said yesterday.

The militant Taliban movement on Monday, August 13, released two of the 21 remaining South Korean Christians held hostage in Afghanistan, BosNewsLife monitored.

Security forces and others have killed at least 13 Christians in Laos in recent weeks as part of a crackdown on Hmong villagers "falsely accused of stirring rebel dissent", a Christian news agency reported Tuesday, August 7.

Christians in the Philippines on Saturday, August 4, mourned the death of a Protestant pastor who was killed in one of two explosions that ripped through a bus terminal in southern Koronadal City. The blast Friday, August 3, also wounded up to 10 passengers, police and media reports said.

Pakistani officials have halted all Bible classes for Christian prisoners in a Punjab jail, isolating the inmate who taught the classes and barring a local pastor from his weekly visits, a non-governmental organization (NGO) working in prisons reported.

A Christian advocacy group has asked the chief minister of the northeastern state of Assam to provide protection to believers after unidentified assailants suspected to be Hindu extremists beat a Christian worker to death in Guwahati.