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WARSAW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The parliament of predominantly Catholic Poland has voted to hold early elections following high level corruption allegations.

ASMARA, ERITREA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Eritrea on Friday, September 7, mourned a young woman who was apparently tortured to death at a military facility for refusing to abandon her faith in Jesus Christ, the fourth Eritrean believer known to have been killed this way in the last year.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese secret service agents are massively infiltrating China's growing house church movement and pressure its leaders to leave Beijing before the Olympic Games are held there in 2008, well-informed Chinese sources and rights investigators told BosNewsLife Friday, September 7.

ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Native missionaries in eastern Nigeria on Friday, September 7, were trying to prevent Muslim authorities of taking over a mission school.

SIBIU/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of key Christian leaders gathered Thursday, September 6, in Romania for the first ever high level ecumenical meeting in a former Communist and mainly Orthodox nation, amid concerns about the future of European churches.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (BosNewsLife)-- A group of Christian rights activists demonstrated in Brussels Wednesday, September 5, to demand more European Union pressure on Burma's military government to end its reported crackdown on pro-democracy activists, including Christians.

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- There was uncertainty Wednesday, September 5, about the plight of Christian teenage twins in Egypt, after a court postponed a ruling on whether they can remain in their Christian mother's custody or move in with their estranged Muslim father, who wants to change their religion.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- The Reverend D. James Kennedy, a charismatic megachurch pastor and television preacher who often warned of America's moral decline and urged the nation to return to its "Christian foundations" has died, his family and officials said Wednesday, September 5. He was 76.

ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Five Christians have been sentenced in Algeria for preaching Christianity, with some of them receiving one year imprisonment, Algerian media reported Tuesday, September 4.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- There were fresh concerns Tuesday, September 4, about hardships faced by Orthodox believers and other minority Christians in mainly Muslim Turkey amid pressure by authorities on the Greek Orthodox Patriarch and reports of an arson attack against a church.