Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan PESHAWAR/LAHORE (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani Christian family was hiding Sunday, October 13, after allegedly receiving death threats for protesting against twin suicide attacks at a historic church in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar, in which their friends were killed. As many as 171 people died and some 150 people were injured in the September blasts at Peshawar's All Saints Church, church officials said,

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Chinese Christian has been released after completing a two-and-a-half year sentence on charges linked to her human rights work, but concerns remain over an illness left untreated during her imprisonment, Christian activists confirmed Wednesday, October 9.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- The United States was under pressure Friday, October 4, to condemn "grave violations” of religious freedom in Indonesia amid reports that two Indonesian Christians were sentenced to three years imprisonment for evangelism.

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Xavier P. William reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians gathered for protests, prayers and memorial services across  Pakistan to remember the victims of last week's suicide attack at a major church in the violence plagued city of Peshawar, where another powerful bomb ripped through a busy marketplace Sunday, September 29, killing at least 38 people.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani Christian lawyers on Friday, September 27, demanded a government-led military crackdown on those responsible for Sunday's suicide attack at a church in north-west Pakistan and other militants.

By BosNewsLife Africa and Asia Services with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos at BosNewsLife News Canter and Xavier P. William in Peshawar NAIROBI/PESHAWAR (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Africa and Asia tried to come to terms Friday, September 27, with the aftermath of attacks by Islamic militants that left at least some 150 people dead and hundreds injured, amid global concerns that devoted Christians are increasingly singled out by terrorists.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in southern Laos have told Christians to recant their faith in Christ or face expulsion from their village amid a wider crackdown on churches, a human rights official and friend of the believers told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Afghanistan's tiny Christian minority faced more danger Monday, September 23, after a key legislator suggested that those who convert from Islam to Christianity "are to be executed," Catholics familiar with the situation said.

(CHANGING DEATH TOLL, CHANGING DATELINE AND BYLINE, ADDS MORE INFO AND REACTIONS) By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Xavier P. William reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A suicide bomb attack rocked a historic church in northwest Pakistan Sunday, September 22, killing as many as 85 people and injuring more than 140 following several other anti-Christian incidents in this heavily Islamic nation.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service HAGATNA, GUAM (BosNewsLife)-- Global Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio was struggling Friday, September 20, to keep its programs to North Korea, China and other Asian nations on the air following an earthquake, heavy rains and storms around its transmitters on the Pacific island of Guam, an official said.