Christians in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, May 13, worshiped amid heightened tensions after they received threatening letters warning them to shut their churches and convert to Islam within the next few days as anti-Christian violence spreads across Pakistan, officials confirmed to BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyAmid international pressure Chinese security forces have returned confiscated items to two house churches in the city of Kunshan in China's Jiangsu province, BosNewsLife established Saturday, May 12.
...continue reading this storyChinese Christians are suing authorities to regain items confiscated during a recent police raid on their congregation in China's Jiangsu Province amid reports of an ongoing police crackdown on unregistered house churches, religious rights investigators said Wednesday, May 9.
...continue reading this storySeveral arrested missionaries and church leaders were recovering from injuries in Western India late Tuesday, May 8, after they were attacked by Hindu militants and dragged to local police, the latest in a series of violent incidents against Indian Christians.
...continue reading this storyA Degar Montagnard who worshipped in a house church in Vietnam's Central Highlands was free Monday, May 7, after weeks of imprisonment and torture in March and April, fellow believers said.
...continue reading this storyA tense calm returned to a small town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka after at least six people were injured Sunday, May 6, when suspected Hindu militants demanding the closure of a new church attacked evangelical Christians following a worship service, investigators told BosNewsLife.
...continue reading this storyThe whereabouts of several predominantly Christian Karenni villagers in Burma were unknown Saturday, May 5, after government backed forces reportedly executed a humanitarian aid worker in Burma's Karenni State.
...continue reading this storyA Christian woman accused of blasphemy against Islam has been released on bail but concerns remain over her safety amid death threats, a human rights official involved in the trial confirmed to BosNewsLife Friday, May 4.
...continue reading this storyThere was international concern late Friday, May 4, about the plight of a key Christian leader and about 80 other evangelicals, including foreign nationals, who were reportedly detained in Eritrea's capital Asmara where government security forces raided the Presbyterian Mehret Yesus Church.
...continue reading this storyAuthorities in Uzbekistan have forced evangelical Pastor Dmitri (David) Shestakov to withdraw an appeal against his sentence to four years labor camp, Protestant and other sources following the case said Thursday, May 3.
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