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ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's central government will deploy more police to the nation's troubled state of Kaduna "to fight crime", after two Christians were reportedly killed there by suspected Muslim militants, BosNewsLife learned Wednesday, October 24.

ST. PETERSBURG/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Seventh-day Adventist Christians and their supporters gathered in the Russian town of St. Petersburgs to unveil a monument commemorating Adventists killed under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, BosNewsLife monitored Wednesday, October 24.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A major Hungarian Reformed church on Tuesday, October 23, held a controversial gathering in Budapest involving the extremist Magyar Garda, or Hungarian Guard, after 19 people were injured in clashes between far right activists and police.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- An influential mission group working in the former Soviet Union said Tuesday, October 23, that evangelical churches are growing in predominantly Islamic Uzbekistan, despite reports of a government-backed crackdown on Christian activities in the former Soviet republic.

BAKU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan is facing a two-year prison sentence in a forced labor camp, after an appeals court refused to overturn the conviction, a rights group monitoring the case confirmed to BosNewsLife Tuesday, October 23.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- The dead body of an apparently raped and murdered Dalit Christian woman was found in "a thicket of shrubs’" in India's Kerala state, rights investigators confirmed Monday, October 22.

WARSAW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has admitted defeat in Sunday's parliament elections after exit polls showed he lost to a liberal-leaning party that has pledged to withdraw Polish forces from Iraq.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A far-right Hungarian paramilitary 'guard' on Sunday, October 21, inducted 600 people wearing black uniforms and symbols reminiscent of the country's pro-Nazi regime during World War II, despite protests from Roma and Jewish groups and the government.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- Two Iraqi Catholic priests who were kidnapped in the northern city of Mosul were released unharmed Sunday, October 21, the Vatican and other church officials confirmed.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Police forces and Hindu militants interrupted a major Christian convention in India's state of Chhattisgarh and forced a pastor to hand over names of people who "accepted Christ", a Christian official told BosNewsLife Sunday, October 21.