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BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- At least two prominent church leaders of a main house church in China's Gansu Province remained detained Wednesday, January 9, after Chinese security forces raided a worship service, fellow Christians said.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- A Turkish teenager who vowed to kill the pastor of a Protestant church and "massacre" Christians in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun has been released by a local court because he is "to young" Turkish media reported Tuesday, January 8.

(ADDING QUOTES OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF INDIA) NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Hindu militants have attacked a house church in the Indian state of Rajasthan, seriously injuring several worshippers, the latest in reported attacks against Christians across India, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, January 8.

MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Christian missionaries have expressed concerns about the situation of Protestant Christians in Russia following attacks on a Baptist and Pentecostal church outside Moscow, apparently by members of a group supporting President Vladimir Putin, BosNewsLife established Tuesday, January 8.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese authorities have released on bail the owner of a Christian bookstore near Beijing's Olympic Village and fellow workers, amid international pressure, after detaining them last month on charges of "illegal printing and distribution of Christian literature," BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, January 8.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Anxious Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo celebrated Monday, January 7, what may be their last Orthodox Christmas under Serbian rule, as the province's ethnic Albanian leadership seeks independence from Belgrade.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, January 7, urged Iraq's government to protect the country's minorities as up to six people were injured in overnight attacks targeting Iraqi Christians.

TIMISOARA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- In Romania last preparations were underway Sunday, January 6, for the funeral of the head of Romania's Baptist Church, Petru Dugulescu, who died shortly after his past as a collaborator of the feared Securitate secret police was revealed. He was 62.

HANOI/MANILA (BosNewsLife)-- In a show of defiance to the Communist government of Vietnam, an estimated hundreds of Catholics held prayer vigils in the capital Hanoi this weekend, asking for the return of church land seized by authorities half a century ago, following several other demonstrations against land seizures.

SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The governor of Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where Christians have been kidnapped and killed by suspected Muslim militants and other troops, resigned Saturday, January 5, citing "personal reasons" for his departure.