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WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Police on Friday, July 25, shot and killed a man who had threatened to attack a Christian radio station in the United States.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in eastern Jakarta were facing uncertainty Thursday, July 24, after officials in Cipayung district reportedly ordered their pastor to dismantle the newly constructed second floor of his home and to cease all Christian activities in the area.

MINSK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian in Belarus has been fined the equivalent of nine months minimum wage salary for attempting to organise an informal Bible study and discussion group, Christian rights investigators said Wednesday, July 23.

RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- A leading religious rights group and dissidents of Burma's democracy movement urged the United Nations Tuesday, July 22, to pressure the military government to improve the rights of minorities, including Christians, at a time of mounting concern about this nation's future.

(ADDS COMMENTS FROM BELGRADE GROUP AND WHITE HOUSE)BELGRADE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Serbia said Monday, July 21, it has detained one of the world's most wanted war crimes suspects, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has been linked to Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- One of China's most respected house church leaders remained homeless Sunday, July 20, with his wife after authorities expelled them from their home in the Chinese capital Beijing for meeting an American Congressional delegation, officials and a rights group said.

MEXICO CITY/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was hope Saturday, July 19, for the release of dozens of evangelical Christian prisoners in Mexico who spent a decade behind bars for their alleged involvement in a massacre, amid mounting evidence they are innocent, an advocacy group involved in the case told BosNewsLife.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The body of a Christian teenager has been hauled out of a canal in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore after he was beaten to death there for courting a Muslim girl, BosNewsLife learned Friday, July 18.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man was hiding Thursday, July 17, after Muslim clerics in Pakistan's Punjab province threatened to kill him for marrying a Muslim woman, while two Christian girls in the same region were forced to marry their Muslim kidnappers, rights investigators and local Christians said.

ISTANBUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Wednesday, July 16, that Turkish authorities were involved in last year's murder of three evangelical Christians at a Christian publishing house in the city of Malatya.