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(ADDS COMMENTS AND DETAILS)MULTAN, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Time was running out Monday, March 10, for a Christian man as authorities prepared to execute him by hanging, after he was convicted of killing a minor in what rights groups described as an unfair trial.

SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea has executed 15 of its citizens for their attempt to flee the country in search for food, an aid group said in a statement monitored by BosNewsLife Sunday, March 9.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- China on Saturday, March 8, released a prominent Chinese rights lawyer who was kidnapped by police this week, shortly after two Christian leaders were set free from detention.

BELGRADE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Serbia 's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Saturday, March 8, announced his resignation and called for early elections, amid disagreements within his cabinet over whether to establish closer ties with the European Union following Kosovo's declaration of independence.

WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A leading human rights group has issued its annual ‘Hall of Shame’ report with Communist-run North Korea, Iraq and China among its list of "the world's 10 worst persecutors of Christians," BosNewsLife learned Saturday, March 8.

KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christian leaders in Pakistan anticipated a new dawn in the fight against Islamic extremism Friday, March 7, amid reports that police detained Muslim militants for their alleged involvement in the 2002 massacre of seven Christian aid workers in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHOPIA (BosNewsLife)-- Muslim militants in southern Ethiopia killed three Christians and injured dozens as part of a plan to eradicate Christianity from the area, a leading human rights group said Friday, March 7.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- At least eight people were killed and 35 injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire in a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem, before being shot himself, officials said.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- The United States military and church leaders expressed concerns Thursday, March 6, that a Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq may be killed, on a day when Baghdad saw at least 54 people killed and over 120 injured in two massive roadside bombings.

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)-- Dutch State Secretary for Justice Nebahat Albayrak refuses to give a residence permit to an Iranian convert to Christianity, despite fears he may be executed at home, local media reported Thursday, March 6