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NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Indian evangelist working for international Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio has been shot and killed because of his involvement in converting Hindus to Christianity, police reportedly confirmed Friday, September 28.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese authorities have released a Christian American businessman who served four years for aiding North Korean refugees, BosNewsLife established Friday, September 28.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese securities forces have detained a prominent Christian human rights lawyer and family members, amid an apparent new government-led crackdown on house churches, observers following the case said Thursday, September 27.

BUDAPESY/MINSK (BosNewsLife)-- The government of Belarus has threatened to expel all foreign priests from the former Soviet republic, a Protestant news agency reported Wednesday, September 26.

RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists with close knowledge about the situation in Burma condemned a crackdown on protesters, after the military government admitted Wednesday, September 26, that at least one person was killed and three others injured when its security forces fired guns to suppress the country's largest anti-government demonstration in 20 years.

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)-- The founder of the Netherlands-based missionary organization Open Doors has confirmed that he baptized "scores of [former] Muslim radicals" and he challenges other Christians to follow in his footsteps.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Pastor Zhang Rongliang, one of China's top Christian leaders and authors, "will likely die soon" if he is not released from prison, fellow believers and human rights activists said Tuesday, September 25.

PRISTINA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The European Union on Monday, September 24, condemned a bomb blast that killed at least two people and injured nearly a dozen others in Serbia's Kosovo Province amid fears of new ethnic tensions between the ethnic Albanian majority and minority Serbs, many of whom are Orthodox Christians.

SEOUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- At least one million North Koreans, many of them Christians, are believed to be held in North Korea's concentration camps, more than previously thought, investigators revealed Monday, September 24.

HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Cuba's well-known jailed Christian journalist Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, was believed to still require medical attention Sunday, September 23, amid mounting concern about his health, fellow activists and family members said.