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LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Over a dozen Christian politicians seeking an end to legislation seen as discriminating Pakistan's minority Christians have joined a major Muslim party ahead of next month's general elections, BosNewsLife learned Monday, January 21.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (BosNewsLife)-- The Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) has condemned the confiscation by government officials of Christian children's books deemed offensive to Islam, but it remained unclear Monday, January 21, when and if the publications will be returned to book stores.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- An uneasy calm returned to a Christian missionary camp and another area Sunday, January 20, in India's Chhattisgarh state where up to 100 Christians were injured in attacks this week carried out by suspected Hindu militants, BosNewsLife learned.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Iraqi police on Sunday, January 20, said they shot dead the driver of a vehicle rigged with explosives in the northern city of Mosul where a policeman and a girl were injured this week when a car bomb exploded in front of a local church.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Four Chinese house church leaders spent another day in freedom Saturday, January 19, after they were unexpectedly released from a labor camp following an "unprecedented legal victory" a Christian advocacy group involved in the case said.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of grief-stricken supporters marked the first anniversary of the killing of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist gunned down in Istanbul last year after criticizing mass killings of predominantly Christian Armenians by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in the 1915-1917 period.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Tensions were rising between the government and Christians in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on Friday, January 18, after authorities told Catholics to stop mass prayer vigils demanding the return of church land seized in the 1950s, Catholic church sources said.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A leading group supporting Christians "persecuted for their faith" has launched a global prayer campaign for China where, it says, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been waging "a secret" crackdown on unregistered house churches.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- The children of a Christian business couple in China have appealed to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure their parents' release from China, but it remained unclear Wednesday, January 16, whether any steps were taken.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (BosNewsLife)-- A Roman Catholic missionary priest was shot and killed in the southern Philippines late Tuesday, January 15, during a kidnapping attempt by unknown gunmen, amid a spate of extra judicial killings unresolved by the government, several officials said.