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RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- The United States on Tuesday, May 27, condemned a decision by the military government of Burma to extend the detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, but said it remains committed to over $20 million to Burmese cyclone relief amid reports that Christians are among those who have been denied aid.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Vietnamese security forces have detained a Christian leader as part of a major crackdown on Degar Montagnard Christians who refuse to join the Communist government backed church, their representative told BosNewsLife Monday, May 26.

TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Several members of Iran's rapidly expanding underground church remained behind bars Sunday, May 25, as part of a police crackdown on Muslim converts to Christianity, several Christian sources said.

ATTOCK, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Muslim workers at an ammunition plant in Pakistan's tense North Western Frontier Province apparently kidnapped their Christian colleague, after he condemned anti-Christian remarks and allegedly responded with "blasphemous" comments about Islam, fellow Christians and family members told BosNewsLife.

YANGON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of a rebel group fighting for autonomy and more religious rights of Burma's predominantly Christian Karen community has died, a Christian humanitarian group confirmed Friday May 23.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary on Friday, May 23, laid the foundation stone for a national memorial at the site of a World War Two mass grave of thousands of Jewish forced labour inmates.

ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Algerian woman may face three years in prison for converting from Islam to Christianity without government permission, Christians close to the case said Friday, May 23.

BUDAPEST/MINSK (BosNewsLife)-- Over 50,000 people in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, many of them Christians, have signed a daring petition calling for a revision of what is seen as Europe's most restrictive religious legislation, a rights group said Thursday, May 22.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly all Christian families in a village on Indonesia’s Seram island, in the religiously volatile Maluku province, were homeless Wednesday, May 21, after a Muslim mob burned their houses and other properties as well as killing four believers and injuring dozens others, investigators told BosNewsLife.

HAFIZABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The wife and six children of a jailed Christian doctor were in hiding Tuesday, May 20, after a mob attacked their house in Pakistan's Punjab province, where he was detained on charges of blasphemy against Islam, which could carry the death penalty.