Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- In a unprecedented move, a Chinese court has agreed to hear a case filed by a pastor against government officials who prohibited worship services in his house church, observers familiar with the trial said Wednesday, December 31.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A leading evangelical lawyer has asked a Pakistani top court to overturn the release on bail of "Muslim extremists" who were allegedly involved in anti-Christian attacks in the provincial capital Lahore.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Police in Pakistan's province of Punjab have launched an investigation into reports that Muslim extremists killed a Christian for refusing to convert to Christianity. It comes at a time when Christians in the region are also prosecuted for alleged blasphemy against Islam.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA (BosNewsLife)-- The Catholic archbishop in India's troubled Orissa state on Friday, November 27, urged churches around the world to pray this Christmas for victims of anti-Christian violence in 2007 and last year in which over 100 people were killed.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife BEIJING/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- As Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States ended Friday, January 21, Chinese Christians and rights activists urged China to release jailed Christians, including a prominent human rights lawyer who defended house churches and other religious groups.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility Sunday, December 18, for the suicide attack that rocked a packed evangelical church in Pakistan's city of Quetta, killing nine people and injuring about 60 others, including women and children.

By George Whitten, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Fighters of the militant group Taliban have killed an international team of eye medics, including eight Christian aid workers, in a remote mountainous area of Afghanistan, officials confirmed Monday, August 9.

By Eric Leijenaar, Senior Special Correspondent BosNewsLife and BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Chinese court has postponed the trial of an owner of Christian bookstore, who has been detained since last year for the "illegal distribution of Bibles and Christian literature," well-informed observers told BosNewsLife Monday, March 23.