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NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Dozens of Christian families in India's religiously volatile state of Orissa remained homeless Wednesday, July 2, after authorities demolished their already damaged homes, after deadly anti-Christian riots in December, a key human rights official said.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife/VOA)-- Authorities in Beijing blocked several Chinese dissident lawyers from meeting a pair of visiting American congressmen who presented officials a list of more than 700 "Chinese political prisoners" on whom they want information.

PRETORIA/HARARE/CAIRO (BosNewsLife)-- In one of the strongest statements to date, churches in South Africa have said that Zimbabwe has no president because the June 27 run-off election featuring Robert Mugabe alone "was a sham," a Catholic news agency reported Tuesday, July 1.

BEIJING/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in the Netherlands are preparing for round-the-clock marathon prayers for "increasingly persecuted" churches and imprisoned believers in China "on 8-8-8," the openings day of the Olympic Games in Beijing, an organiser said Tuesday, July 1.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in India on Tuesday, July 1, anticipated more violence after a month that saw Hindu militants attacking several churches and individual believers.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese security forces raided a house church at a coal mine in China's Gansu Province and detained several Christians as part of a crackdown on unauthorized worship services in the Communist nation, a Christian rights group said Monday, June 30.

SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Impoverished Christian parents in Pakistan's Punjab province were still awaiting justice Monday, June 30, more than two weeks after their teenage son died from rabies while working as a shepherd, because a radical Muslim "feudal lord" allegedly refused to provide him proper medical treatment.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- American Republican presidential candidate John McCain prepared for a busy week Monday, June 30, after taking time of his hectic schedule to meet with world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham and his son Franklin, at the family's mountaintop retreat.

DUSHANBE/TASHKENT/MINSK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- In several former Soviet republics Christians were detained or facing their last worship service in their church building Sunday, June 29, as authorities stepped up a crackdown on mainly Protestant Christians, including believers involved in evangelism or unauthorized gatherings.

(ADDS REACTION AMERICAN BLOGGER)SANAA, YEMEN (BosNewsLife)-- Seven arrested Christian missionaries, including an unknown number of Americans, apparently remained detained in Yemen Sunday, June 29, and there was international concern they may face torture for spreading Christianity, several sources said.