Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court refused on Wednesday, November 14, to rule on whether to dismiss a controversial case against a mentally challenged Christian girl who has been charged with "blasphemy against Islam."

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent reporting from Orissa, India PHULBANI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Indian tribal Christians and their relatives are denied government scholarships for education in a violence-plagued district of India's eastern state of Orissa, local Christians and church leaders say.

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Triumphs amid trials marked BosNewsLife's November 4-November 10 newsweek with a Pakistani evangelist managing to distribute Bibles in areas hit by reported Islamic violence, the Middle East's largest Christian community embracing a new leader, while in Africa Christians died in attacks.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A leading Pakistani evangelist says he has been able to massively distribute Bibles in impoverished isolated villages where he claims people are hungry for "God's Word" despite mounting "persecution" by Islamic militants

By Joseph DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-– A Christian young woman who was forced to marry a Muslim man remained abducted in southern Pakistan Monday, November 5, while a pastor was told he would remain behind bars on charges of "blasphemy" in the latest incidents that have shaken the Islamic nation's Christian minority, trials observers said.

By BosNewsLife News Center BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- BosNewsLife's October 27-November 3 newsweek was marked by reports of deadly attacks against Christians, church closures, detentions, a violent storm and saying farewell to one of the news agency's own giants.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife) -- A Christian worker was without his wife and five children Saturday, October 27, as Pakistani police sent him to jail on "false" charges of "blasphemy" against Islam, a rights group said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Indian evangelical pastor was recovering of injuries Sunday, October 21, after he and his family were beaten by "anti-Christian" Hindu extremists near the capital New Delhi, a major mission group and relatives said.

(ADDS MORE CASES OF FORCED RITUALS, BACKGROUND) By BosNewsLife Asia Service VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in southern Laos pressure three jailed pastors and other Christians to participate in occult rituals and recant their faith in Jesus Christ, a religious advocacy group said Thursday, October 18.

>Hungary has Europe's "most restrictive" church registration law >Concerns over Western countries Britain, Spain, Netherlands By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife AMSTERDAM/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- At least 200 million Christians suffer discrimination and persecution worldwide, including even in European Union countries such as Hungary, which now has Europe's "most restrictive" church registration law, according to a new report obtained by BosNewsLife Thursday, October 18.