Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Africa Service and BosNewsLife Asia Service TRIPOLI/JAKARTA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in two heavily Islamic nations were struggling Thursday, March 21, as believers in Libya faced rebuilding their torched church while half-a-world away in Indonesia, Christians were ordered to dismantle their place of worship.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians demand a separate province in Pakistan after as many as 180 Christian-owned homes, shops and two churches were burned down by an angry Muslim mob in the city of Lahore. A Christian-ruled province could have avoided incidents such as last week's attacks against Lahore's Joseph Colony, a Christian neighborhood, said activists and politicians talking to BosNewsLife.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Xavier P. William in Lahore, Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A rights group has defended its controversial decision to help police detain a Christian man whose alleged offensive remarks about Islam's Prophet Muhammad prompted angry Muslims to torch as many as 180 Christian-owned homes, shops and two churches in eastern Pakistan.

(ADDS EXPLOSION ELSEWHERE IN PAKISTAN, MORE DETAILS) By Xavier P. William, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Lahore, Pakistan and Stefan J. Bos at BosNewsLife News Center LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Muslim mob attacked a Christian neighborhood in eastern Pakistan Saturday, March 9, torching up to 100 homes and injuring dozens, after hearing reports that a Christian man committed blasphemy against Islam.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian woman who was "tortured" by police and "falsely accused" of stealing ornaments from a wealthy Pakistani Muslim household has been reunited with her family, attorneys confirmed to BosNewsLife Sunday, March 3.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent reporting from India CHHATTISGARH, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Devoted Christians in India's central state of Chhattisgarh urged the government on Sunday, March 3, to provide protection to churches after Hindu militants broke up evangelical meetings and local police detained four pastors.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A pastor, who had been languishing in a Pakistani jail since October for "blaspheming Islam", was free on bail Thursday, February 28, after the complainant admitted he had mistakenly charged him, Christians said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian disabled man in Pakistan's Punjab province "cries out for justice" after he was shot and stabbed by influential Muslims, his supporters told BosNewsLife Wednesday, February 27.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A key human rights official warned Tuesday, February 12, that corruption within the police and government of India's eastern state of Orissa has contributed to renewed violence against Christians in which at least five people were killed, while several "innocent" believers remain jailed.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christian relief workers rushed to a volatile district in Pakistan's Punjab province Saturday, February 9, after security forces and Muslim hardliners allegedly abused Christian women and raped at least one Christian girl.