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WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The countdown began Monday, November 5, for what organizers say will be the largest global prayer event for the estimated 200 million persecuted Christians around the world, including many who abandoned Islam.

Amid political tensions, Hungarians remembered Sunday those who died when troops from the Soviet Union crushed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination and Communism.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani Christians were bracing for more Islamic violence Saturday, November 3, after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, ahead of a Supreme Court decision on whether to overturn his recent election victory.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Two victories for public prayer "in Jesus' name" were declared in the legislatures of the US states of Indiana and Ohio, but three new battles rage in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina where lawmakers consider banning "Jesus" prayers, well-informed conservative news website WorldNetDaily reported Friday, November 2.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Indonesian court has sentenced 41 Christian leaders to five years imprisonment on charges of blasphemy because they openly prayed that Muslims "come to know Christ," local Christians and a well-informed human rights group told BosNewsLife Thursday, November 1.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese authorities have shut down a multi million dollar branch of Australia-based Enoch Group because it allegedly promoted Christianity and hired Christian workers, investigators close to the case told BosNewsLife Thursday, November 1.

MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A major mission organization in Russia expressed concerns Wednesday, October 31, about the safety of its students after an explosion rocked a bus carrying university students and local residents on their way to work in the central Russian city of Togliatti killing at least eight people.

THE HAGUE/TEHRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran on Tuesday, October 30, denied reports that it sentenced prominent Dutch human rights activist Abdullah al–Mansouri to death on charges of terrorism, Dutch officials said.

AMSTERDAM/BUDAPEST/UZHHOROD (BosNewsLife)-- Aid goods of Dutch Christians intended for a hospital in Ukraine where babies suffer of starvation and disease rot in a local storage facility, according to a document released Tuesday, October 30.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA (BosNewsLife)--United States President George W. Bush on Monday, October 29 named one of Cuba's leading Christian dissidents, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, as among those receiving this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.