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BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (BosNewsLife)-- The Jewish leader of an influential advocacy and aid group says his organization is concerned about an exodus of Christians from places such as Bethlehem, the Biblical birthplace of Jesus, "as a result of growing persecution by radical Muslims."

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A US arms control official says Washington's planned missile defense system for Europe remains necessary despite reports that Iran abandoned its nuclear arms program several years ago.

JAKARTA/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Indonesian security forces have prevented an attack by about 50 Muslim militants on the troubled Pasundan Christian Church in West Java Province, the second act of violence against the Protestant congregation in two weeks, a well-informed Christian rights group said Thursday, December 13.

SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A search continued Thursday, December 13, for the General Secretary of the Churches of Pakistan, Dr. Rejinald Humayun, who was kidnapped last week following clashes in the country involving Islamic militants that killed at least three Christians.

BUDAPEST/PRISTINA (BosNewsLife)-- Kosovo's incoming Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has urged the province's minority Serbs, including many Orthodox Christians, not to be afraid of independence that the ethnic-Albanian majority wants to declare soon.

LONDON, UK (BosNewsLife)-- Officials and religious leaders are urging Britons not to take Christ out of Christmas despite concerns about "rising Christianophobia" in the United Kingdom, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, December 12.

HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A group of at least eight Spanish women were on their way home Tuesday, December 11, after they participated in a protest against Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the detention of hundreds of political prisoners, including many Christians.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- This weekend's deadly shootings in two Christian establishments in the American state of Colorado have underscored concerns that "Christians and churches are the overwhelming target of hate crimes in America," an influential conservative group said Tuesday, December 11.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- At least 150 house church pastors were believed to be behind bars Tuesday, December 11, after Chinese security forces broke up a Christian meeting in China's Shandong Province, fellow believers said.

WASHINGTON/COLORADO SPRINGS (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in the American state of Colorado on Monday, December 10, mourned victims of shootings on an evangelical missionary center and at a megachurchwhich killed at least five people, including the gunman, and injured six others.