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ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A major umbrella group representing numerous Christian denominations in Nigeria urged authorities Tuesday, September 2, to detain those responsible for the burning of an evangelical church in Ilorin, the capital of this African nation's Kwara State.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Native Christian missionaries were among victims in India's Bihar State Tuesday, September 2, amid reports that hundreds of churches and homes were under water because of devastating floods, which have displaced some three million people and claimed at least 90 lives.

BHUBANESHWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Hindu militants set fire to several houses in India's eastern state of Orissa Monday, September 1, where church groups said recent attacks against Christians left at least 36 people dead.

ZESTAPONI, GEORGIA (BosNewsLife)-- The owner of a website who was a vocal critic of Moscow's policies in the volatile region of Ingushetia and elsewhere in the Caucasus area, has reportedly been shot and killed while in police custody.

(ADDS DETAILS RELEASE CO-WORKER, CORRECTS DAY OF RELEASE)BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- One of China's most outspoken evangelists, Pastor Zhang 'Bike' Mingxuan and his wife have been released after three weeks of detention because of their Christian activities, representatives said.

BHUABENESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tens of thousands of Christians, most of them Catholics, were hiding Saturday, August 30, in the jungles of India's eastern state of Orissa where anti-Christian violence killed at least 36 people, Catholic officials said.

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Hindu militants are forcing Christians to leave their homes and become Hindus in India's troubled state of Orissa, where attacks on churches and homes already killed at least 11 people in recent days, a priest told BosNewsLife Thursday, August 29.

VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in Laos have ordered families of three detained Christians in Savannakhet province to sign documents renouncing their faith in Jesus Christ, rights investigators said Thursday, August 28.

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Pope Benedict XVI has condemned anti-Christian violence in India's eastern state of Orissa, which officials said killed at least 11 people, most of them Christians. The pontiff also condemned the murder of a Hindu leader that sparked the state's worst communal clashes in more than a decade.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- An American pastor who disappeared after being detained by Chinese authorities for his involvement in human rights protests has arrived in the United States, but a Chinese bishop has been jailed, friends and representatives said Tuesday, August 26.