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SOUL/ PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korean Christians fear government backed persecution will continue, despite reports that the country's ruler, Kim Jong Il, is very ill, BosNewsLife learned Thursday, September 18.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Wednesday, September 17, about the whereabouts of possibly dozens of Degar Montagnard Christians who have been detained in Vietnam’s Central Highlands as part of a major crackdown on unregistered worship, friends said.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- A missionary pilot of US-based mission group New Tribes Mission (NTM) was free Tuesday, September 16, after being released on bail from jail in Mexico, but colleagues warned he may still face prosecution on charges of flying without a flight plan.

BUDAPEST/ASTANA (BosNewsLife)-- Several Baptist Churches in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan continue have been raided by police because they refuse state registration on principal grounds, BosNewsLife learned Monday, September 15.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Hindu militants attacked nine churches in parts of India's southern state of Karnataka Sunday, September 14, as part of ongoing violent protests against the alleged conversion of Hindus into Christianity by missionaries, police said.

HOUSTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian aid workers, including the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT), rushed to the southern US State of Texas where Hurricane Ike left a path of destruction all the way up to Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city, and over three million people were without power, officials said Saturday, September 13.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A native Christian evangelist who was detained five months ago in Vietnam's Central Highlands may have been killed as prison officials continue to deny family members access to her, an influential advocacy group warned Friday, September 12.

NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife/VOA)-- In New York, Washington and elsewhere, the nation has been marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks with solemn memorial services and heartfelt tributes. Seven years after the attacks, New Yorkers gathered at the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Anti-Christian violence in India's eastern state of Orissa is spreading towards other areas, including the southern state of Karnataka where Christians on Thursday, September 11, expected the outcome of a controversial police investigation into attacks against churches.

(ADDS COMMENTS PASTOR AND LAWYER, MORE DETAILS)MANILA, PHILIPPINES (BosNewsLife)-- The Philippines Court of Appeals ordered the release Thursday, September 11, of a Protestant pastor who was detained for over 15 months, and allegedly tortured, on trumped up charges of murder, south of Manilla.