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CAIRO EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian bookshop employee in Egypt faced possible police interrogation Monday, March 17, after being detained over the weekend by security forces who also confiscated books, compact discs, and issues of a Christian newspaper, a religious rights group said.

VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- At least 15 Christian families in Laos remained unaccounted for Sunday, March 16, after security forces raided their villages and Hmomg church leaders were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, human rights investigators said.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- An influential US-based Christian conservative group planned to march to the Chinese Embassy in Washington Sunday, March 16, as the main Tibetan exile group said at least 80 people were killed in Tibet's ancient capital Lhasa during a Chinese crackdown on protests there.

(CHANGING DEATH TOLL IN TEXT AND HEADLINE) ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A bomb blast rocked an Italian restaurant in a posh area of Islamabad, leaving at least two people dead and some dozen injured, most of them foreigners including diplomats, officials said Saturday March 15.

TIRANA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- At least four people have been killed and over 200 injured, including many children, in a series of powerful explosions that rocked an army base on the outskirts of the capital Tirana Saturday, March 15, officials said.

(ADDS DETAILS FUNERAL)BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Kidnappers of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, who was found dead in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, demanded a $1 million ransom as part of an operation blamed on the al Qaeda terror network, police said Friday, March 14.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq last month was found dead Thursday, March 13, church officials confirmed, and Pope Benedict XVI was quick to condemn the "inhuman act of violence." It came as in Baghdad a car bomb killed at least 18 people.

MULTAN, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian man was hanged to death in Pakistan Wednesday, March 12, after being convicted of killing a Muslim boy in what rights groups described as an unfair trial. Zahid Masih, who was in his 20s, was executed at 6:00 am local time at the Central Jail in the city of Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province, despite appeals for clemency, BosNewsLife learned.

RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Burmese government troops have launched new attacks on civilians in the northern Karen State are, displacing over 2,100 villagers, a major human rights watchdog said.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Several Christian men and women were killed and many more injured when two suicide attackers detonated two huge truck bombs Tuesday, March 11, in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, witnesses told BosNewsLife.