Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A government official of India's remote Tripura state was trying to avoid prison Monday, June 10, after he allegedly beheaded his Christian son-in-law. Local police initially told local media that the 55-year-old Gobinda Jamatia killed Tapas Bin, 35, with the help of a tribal sorcerer for refusing to abandon Christianity and embrace Hinduism.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A 16-year-old Christian convert from Islam remained missing Saturday, June 8, some two weeks after he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Pakistan's volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Christian said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Twenty Baptist pastors have been attacked by suspected Hindu militants in southeastern India and several church leaders required hospital treatment for severe injuries, representatives said Friday, June 7.

By Joseph DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)– China's Communist government has closed a dozen churches in Hainan Province and threatens to shut down many more as part of a "clandestine plan" to "eradicate" all unregistered house churches, an advocacy group warned Thursday, June 6.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- As Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to power Wednesday, June 5, dozens of suspected Muslim militants were to learn whether their release on bail would be overturned, a Christian lawyer involved in the cases told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Seven members of a house church in China's Henan province spent Sunday, June 2, behind bars after they were sentenced to long prison terms on charges of "cult activity", a leading rights activist told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Family members of Pastor Gong Shengliang, whose house church movement was banned as a cult in China, have renewed calls for his release from prison after he apparently suffered a stroke but was denied medical treatment.

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 with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court on Friday condemned police for the way they investigated the rape of a Christian girl and rejected the main Muslim suspect's request to be released on bail, a leading attorney told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife PYONGYANG/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- There was concern Thursday, May 30, over the whereabouts of an American evangelical missionary after North Korea confirmed it had sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor for alleged "hostile acts" against the Communist-run isolated state. Pae Jun-ho, known in the U.S. as Kenneth Bae, was tried on April 30, the state news agency KCNA said.