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BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese airport officials in southwestern China seized hundreds of Bibles from four Americans Sunday, August 17, saying it it was illegal to bring the books into the country, missionaries said.

RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari prepared to visit Burma Saturday, August 16, amid reports that a 15 year-old school girl in the country's Kachin State, was gang-raped, severely mutilated and murdered by Burmese troops as part of an alleged government backed crackdown on ethnic minorities, with a significant number of Christians.

ZESTAPONI, GEORGIA (BosNewsLife)-- United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has condemned Russian military operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying the action reminds her of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. She spoke in Georgia Friday, August 15, where the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared that his country would never surrender despite Moscow's military might.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm returned to the city of Lahore was Thursday, August 14, after at least five people, including police officers, were killed and 20 seriously injured in a suicide attack.

(As the world watches the unfolding crisis in Georgia, BosNewsLife re-publishes following story which received many hits and international attention. This article was first published January 4, 2007). LONDON/MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Key dissidents from the former Soviet Union have demanded an investigation into the operations of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Russian Service, amid fears that former and current agents of the Russian secret services and ex-Communists infiltrated the organization, BosNewsLife established Thursday, January 4.

MOSCOW/TBLISI (BosNewsLife)-- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, a day after the United States accussed Moscow of "invading" the country and Christian missionaries expressed concerns about damaged churches.

TBLISI/MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A major Christian missionary group in Russia said Monday, August 11, it is trying to reach survivors of clashes between Russian and Georgian troops in and around the breakaway region of South Ossetia, amid reports that several churches have been damaged.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- China has released two of four Christian missionaries detained in its Inner Mongolia for their Christian activities, but there remains concern about other key Christian leaders arrested in recent days and weeks, representatives told BosNewsLife Monday, August 11.

OKARA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Widow Zeenat Javed was still awaiting justice Sunday, August 10, four months after her Christian husband was killed for refusing to vote for a Muslim candidate in elections in Pakistan's Punjab province.

(ADDS MORE DETAILS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF BROTHER)BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese police reportedly detained a Christian activist Sunday, August 10, who was on his way to a church service attended by United States President George W. Bush, BosNewsLife monitored.