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BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Sweltering heat that killed at least 30 people across Orissa by Friday, May 27, did little to

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife) -- Four Christian women were killed and five others injured when militants in a passing car raked their

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- The Communist Party of India (CPI) and other opposition groups in Orissa urged the Indian prime

BUCHAREST/VATICAN CITY (BosNewsLife) -- The Vatican celebrates Christmas beneath a spectacular Christmas tree donated by Romania,

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A key Catholic bishop urged Pakistan's authorities to intervene as a Thursday, May 17, deadline set by Muslim militants expired for Christians in one town to convert to Islam and close their churches, or face bomb attacks.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife) -- The Foreign Minister of Afghanistan's Islamic Taliban regime denied Thursday, September 6,

BAKU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan is facing a two-year prison sentence in a forced labor camp, after an appeals court refused to overturn the conviction, a rights group monitoring the case confirmed to BosNewsLife Tuesday, October 23.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife) -- Hungary's Jewish community, which includes Holocaust survivors, welcomed Tuesday, December 9 the

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- An influential American ecumenical alliance accused China on Wednesday, May 28, of preventing Christians to help survivors of the recent earthquake, and said reports suggested a "sudden increase" in detentions of 'house church' believers across the country.

(ADDS STAMPEDE IN SLUMS AND OIL PLATFORM FIRE)MUMBAI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Flooding caused by India's heaviest rain ever recorded has killed hundreds of people in the slums of the