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BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife) -- A Christian rights group expressed concerns Thursday, August 23, about the situation of thee detained influential Chinese Christians, saying at least one of them

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- The last eight known Jews in Baghdad faced an uncertain future Wednesday, August 22, because of "grave" security threats and the Netherlands' refusal to grant them asylum, a community leader said.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany on Wednesday, August 22, asked Hungary's chief prosecutor to "closely monitor" the activities of a far-right militia after Jewish groups warned the uniforms its members wear resemble those of Hungarian fascists in World War Two.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Moscow on Tuesday, August 21, that her country's dependence on Russian energy will not prevent her from criticizing Russia's human rights record.

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (BosNewsLife)-- A tribe in Papua New Guinea has publicly asked forgiveness for killing and eating four missionaries nearly 130 years ago, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, August 21.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Hindu militants have threatened to burn to death an Indian evangelical pastor and his family if they don't close their Pentecostal church and leave a suburb of Bangalore, India's third largest city, Christian supporters said Monday, August 20.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A German evangelical development worker who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has been freed, her organization and Afghan officials confirmed Monday, August 20.

WASHINGTON/ASHEVILLE (BosNewsLife)-- The ailing American evangelist Billy Graham was resting Sunday, August 19, after being admitted to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, officials said.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tensions remained high Sunday, August 19, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu after a reported crackdown by militants on Dalit Christians in which a pastors' brother and a local official were killed.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary on Sunday, August 19, prepared for the arrival of 29 Cuban refugees, including dissidents, who were held at the American military naval base at Guantanamo, after failing to flee the Communist island nation, BosNewsLife learned.