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(ADDING NAME CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMAN, DETAILS) MOSUL, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian music store owner was shot and killed in Mosul, Iraqi police said Monday, October 13, the latest in a series of killings that has caused thousands of Christians to flee the northern city in recent days, BosNewsLife monitored.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christian families have fled a restive town in Pakistan's Punjab province after a wedding between a Christian young man and a Muslim girl led to violence and police threats, local residents told BosNewsLife.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Some 1,000 police began deploying in Christian areas of Iraq's northern city of Mosul Monday, October 13, after thousands of Christians fled the worst violence against them in five years, BosNewsLife learned.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Pakistani Christians, a father and his teenage daughter, remained jailed Sunday, October 12, on charges of blasphemy against Islam after a local court refused to release them on bail, their legal representatives told BosNewsLife.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly 1,000 Christian families have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to escape the worst extremist attacks against them in five years, officials said Saturday, October 11.

VIENNA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far right views generated international outrage, has died in a car crash while on his way to a family gathering, officials said Saturday, October 11. He was 58.

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Friday, October 10, about the situation of an Egyptian Coptic Christian woman who has been sentenced to three years in prison for "refusing" to follow her late father's conversion to Islam, Coptic Christians with close knowledge about the case said.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it appears Russian troops are withdrawing from key positions in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, nearly two monthsafter a brief war ended between Russian and Georgian troops. He made the comments on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Budapest, where defense ministers pledged political and practical support for Georgia, but ruled out delivering weapons to the country.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, says it will send ships to Somalia to tackle pirates that have attacked scores of vessels this year and protect ships carrying food aid from the United Nations.

TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian advocacy group welcomed on Thursday, October 9, Iran's release of two Christian converts detained for apostasy but urged the Iranian government to extend religious rights to other citizens.