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DONETSK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Against all odds, some 23 miners in Ukraine were rescued Monday, June 10, from a damaged shaft one-thousand-meters underground, a day after a methane-gas explosion rocked the Karl Marx coal mine, north east of the regional capital Donetsk.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- With two months to go until the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a major human rights group on Sunday, June 8, released a report detailing what it called a "current government crackdown on China’s unregistered Christians."

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani Christian insurance agent was without a job Saturday, June 7, as Muslim extremists threatened him with death in Pakistan's Punjab while a key human rights activist there contemplated his future after he was nearly killed by militants, Christians said.

BAGHDAD/BERLIN (BosNewsLife)-- Displaced Christians in volatile Iraq and neighboring countries still searched for a safety Friday, June 6, after Gemany reportedly pledged it may act alone to rescue them if fellow European European nations continue to refuse a joint welcome to the refugees.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary has opened a memorial park south of Budapest to commemorate the Treaty of Trianon which deprived the country of almost two-thirds of its territory and millions of Hungarians.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Rights investigators have expressed concern over "growing hostility towards Christianity" in the United States, after a longtime wrestling coach was fired at a high school in the US state of Michigan for allegedly allowing a former assistant to convert Muslims into Christianity.

BUDAPEST/LJUBLJANA (BosNewsLife)-- Austria and legislators of the European Parliament are leading demands Thursday, June 5, for an explanation on what caused a water leak at a nuclear plant in southeastern Slovenia.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese security forces continue to arrest Christians involved in helping survivors of the recent earthquake, which killed at least nearly 70,000 people in southwest China's Sichuan province, with many thousands more missing and likely dead, representatives said Wednesday, June 4.

BOGOTA/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- A Netherlands-based group defending reportedly persecuted Christians admitted Wednesday, June 4, that it has met the leadership of Colombia's main left-wing rebel group to discuss the closure of over 130 churches and death threats against Colombian Christians.

ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A court in Algeria gave four Christians suspended jail sentences and fines Tuesday, June 3, for seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity, as part of a government crackdown on mission activities in the African country.