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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A major advocacy group representing Pakistani Christians allegedly persecuted for their faith warned Friday, December 28, that with the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Christians "lost a vital supporter of their rights."

BAMUNIGAM, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- At least nine Christians have been killed in India's religiously volatile eastern state of Orissa where Hindu extremists continued attacking Christian institutions and individual believers for a fifth day Friday, December 28, church sources said.

(ADDS REACTIONS WORLD LEADERS)RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan’s former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who was backed by several Christian political activists seeking more religious and political freedoms, was assassinated Thursday, December 27, in a major attack that also killed at least 20 others, officials and witnesses said.

BAMUNIGAM, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Indian church leaders on Thursday, December 27, appealed to authorities to intervene after Hindu extremists attacked dozens of Christian institutions, including churches, in the religiously volatile eastern state of Orissa over Christmas, reportedly killing up to three people and injuring many others.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The Website of Central and Eastern Europe’s first Christian news agency, BosNewsLife, was running again Wednesday, December 26, after what its founder described as "an apparent Christmas Day attack," by a yet unknown group.

SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea's feared National Security Agency (NSA) has stepped up efforts to unmask the growing number of underground Christians in the isolated Communist state by setting up "fake churches", a well-informed dissident group said in comments monitored by BosNewsLife Wednesday, December 26.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Scores of Christians in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city in Punjab Province, spent Christmas Day without a place to worship after local government-backed Muslim criminals allegedly destroyed their church building and grabbed their land.

BAMUNIGAM/MANILA (BosNewsLife)-- Several people were injured when a Hindu mob attacked a Christmas worship service in India’s religiously volatile eastern state of Orissa Monday, December 24, destroying a crib as well as light and sound equipment, Christians told BosNewsLife.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has criticized Sunday's presidential election in Uzbekistan for failing to meet basic democratic standards. The criticism came as the Central Election Commission announced that Uzbekistan's autocratic President Islam Karimov won another seven-year term by a landslide, adding to fears among minorities, including Christians.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Voters in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan have finished voting in an election expected to extend the 18-year rule of autocratic President Islam Karimov under whose leadership thousands of political and religious prisoners, including Christians, have faced hardship including torture.