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KATHMANDU, NEPAL (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian rights group said Thursday, April 10, it hopes Nepal will see more religious and political rights following elections, which were hailed by international observers as a success, despite reports that violence left at least two people dead.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- The family of a detained Christian in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region reportedly fears that he may be executed on charges of "separatism" and "endangering national security" after protests against the Chinese government in the area and neighboring Tibet.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Chinese Christian leader jailed for receiving thousands of Bibles to distribute free-of-charge, was "recuperating at home" Tuesday, April 8, after a court determined there was no sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A Vietnamese Degar Montagnard Christian who refused to join the Communist-backed church in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been tortured to death in prison, while other detainees were beaten for declining to renounce their faith in Christ, representatives told BosNewsLife.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- House church leaders and other Christians remained detained Sunday, April 6, in China’s Sichuan Province, on charges of running an "evil cult" after security forces raided their house church and Sunday School, fellow Christians said.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- An Assyrian Orthodox priest was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday, April 5, near his home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the latest in a series of attacks against the country’s Christian minority, police and church officials said.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A devoted Christian in Uzbekistan’s second largest city faced more police interrogations Saturday, April 5, after security forces broke up a Christian home meeting, a well-informed rights group told BosNewsLife.

MOSUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- A Dutch parliamentarian investigating reports of persecution says about 100,000 Christian refugees in northern Iraq are in life danger as Islamic militants have launched a "religious cleansing campaign" in the region, an influential Dutch Christian news site reported Saturday, April 5.

LONDON, UK (BosNewsLife)-- The general director of the Evangelical Alliance (EA) in Britain cautioned Friday, April 4, there would have been "no King without King’s God" at a ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- A group of pastors and evangelical Christians said Friday, April 4, that church leaders of warring tribes have repented for post-election violence that left at least 1,000 people dead, although clashes continue in some areas, despite a UN-backed peace deal.