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ASMARA/NAIROBI (BosNewsLife)-- Hundreds of Christians from around the world have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the first National Day of Prayer for Eritrea, where about 2,000 Christians are detained and in many cases tortured for their faith, a human rights group supporting the event said Monday, May 14.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in the Gaza Strip faced new tensions Sunday, May 13, amid reports that a Palestinian Islamic group's armed wing is targeting "Christian missionary activity" in the Gaza Strip.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Pentecostal Christian in Uzbekistan faced a difficult Sunday, May 13, after receiving a two-year suspended prison sentence in Nukus, the capital of the Karakalpakstan autonomous republic in north-western Uzbekistan, on charges of teaching religion illegally, human rights watchers and local Christians confirmed.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, May 13, worshiped amid heightened tensions after they received threatening letters warning them to shut their churches and convert to Islam within the next few days as anti-Christian violence spreads across Pakistan, officials confirmed to BosNewsLife.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- In a move that was expected to lead to tensions with Palestinians and Arab states, Israel's government on Sunday, May 13, decided to observe the 40th anniversary of "the reunification of Jerusalem" with several measures, including moving key government offices, a court complex and education center to the city.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Amid international pressure Chinese security forces have returned confiscated items to two house churches in the city of Kunshan in China's Jiangsu province, BosNewsLife established Saturday, May 12.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Vietnamese dissidents and Western human rights activists on Friday, May 11, condemned the sentencing of Vietnamese Christian lawyers, Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, by a court in Hanoi to prison terms of five years and four years respectively, followed by four year and three year periods of probation.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Human rights investigators said Thursday, May 10, that Hungary denies justice to possibly thousands of rape victims, most of them women raped within marriage or another family structure.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- International human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday, May 10, condemned the sentencing of three leading members of the anti-government People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to prison terms of between three and five years.

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese Christians are suing authorities to regain items confiscated during a recent police raid on their congregation in China's Jiangsu Province amid reports of an ongoing police crackdown on unregistered house churches, religious rights investigators said Wednesday, May 9.