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(ADDS DETAILS OF FUNERAL)SARGODHA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A funeral was held Sunday, October 21, for one of several Christian workers killed in Thursday's suicide attacks in Karachi that killed up to 140 people, officials told BosNewsLife.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- A deadline for paying a ransom of $1 million for the release of two Catholic priests passed Saturday, October 20, amid mounting concern about the situation of the two men.

KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan's main alliance of minority groups confirmed Friday, October 19, that at least two of its Christian political activists were killed and its leader was injured when two bombs rocked the motorcade of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi.

KARACHI, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- In a major blow for Christians and other minorities seeking more protection and democracy, at least 130 people died when two bombs exploded near the homecoming procession of Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto while she traveled from Karachi's airport to a rally, after eight years in self-imposed exile.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- There was mounting concern Wednesday, October 17, about the health of a Beijing pastoramid reports he was attacked by members of China's feared Public Security Bureau (PSB).

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Amid fresh concerns about the rise of neo-Nazi groups here, Hungarians could see a memorial plaque Tuesday, October 16, in honor of nuns who saved around 50 Jewish children and their parents from the Nazi death camps.

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- An uneasy calm returned Monday, October 15, to the village of Gowindhi, near Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore, after a violent mob of Muslims "ransacked and desecrated" the local evangelical New Apostolic Faith church, rights investigators said.

VATICAN CITY/BAGHDAD (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul were anxiously awaiting news late Sunday, October 13, about the whereabouts of two abducted Syrian Catholic priests after Pope Benedict XVI said they "are being threatened with death" amid reports their kidnappers demand a $1 million ransom.

YEREVAN/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- Armenian Christians on Saturday were anxiously awaiting the next step by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after she promised to press ahead on a resolution calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks "genocide", despite White House concerns it will damage relations with Turkey, a key ally in the Iraq war.

TARNABOD, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The Catholic oriented Hungarian Maltese Charity Service on Friday, October 12, opened a social institute in one of Hungary's poorest villages, named after Dutch philanthropist Miep van Wetten-Rensum, who fights poverty in Hungary.