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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (BosNewsLife)-- The pastor of one of Central America’s largest churches and evangelical organizations says criminal groups are infiltrating his and other Christian groups in an effort to halt their operations, BosNewsLife learned Friday, January 4.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Muslim militants have destroyed an evangelical underground house church of Christian mission group Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) in a volatile area of India’s Kerala state, an official confirmed to BosNewsLife Friday, January 4.

(ADDS NEWS OF BOMB BLAST IN 3RD PARAGRAPH)ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Turkish police have apparently prevented an attempt to assassinate the pastor of an evangelical church in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, just two weeks after a Catholic priest was stabbed by a young suspect following Sunday Mass, BosNewsLife established Thursday, January 3.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the United States Congress, said Wednesday, January 2, he is retiring because he is suffering from cancer and needs medical treatment.

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf announced Wednesday, January 2, that Britain will assist in an investigation into the assassination of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who Pakistani Christians described as "the only hope" to end religious persecution.

(ADDS CONCERNS ABOUT CHRISTIANS IN HIDING)NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR (BosNewsLife)-- There were new reports of attacks by suspected Hindu militants against Christians in India on New Year's Day, shortly after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to protect the country's minority Christians in a letter to the widow of an Australian missionary killed nine years ago.

NAIROBI, KENYA (BosNewsLife)-- At least dozens of people were burned to death in a Protestant church in western Kenya where they had taken shelter from tribal clashes sparked by a disputed vote that gave the president a second term, police and Red Cross sources said Tuesday, January 1.

BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm returned to India's troubled eastern state of Orissa Monday, December 31, as security forces stepped up patrols in the state's Kandhamal district after a week of attacks against Christian institutions left up to nine Christians dead and at least seven Christian girls missing, church and government officials said.

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Over one thousand Christians, including priests, nuns, women and children, have fled to the jungles of India’s Orissa State where deadly anti-Christian violence entered its seventh day, a church official told BosNewsLife Sunday, December 30.

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian leaders in India’s tense eastern state of Orissa said Saturday, December 29, they are skeptical about a local government-ordered judicial inquiry into Hindu-led violence that rocked Kandhamal district this week, killing some nine Christians and damaging over 50 churches and other buildings.