Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani evangelist and pastor was still recovering Thursday, December 16, after he was set on fire by hard-line Muslims in Pakistan's Punjab province, Christians and rights activists said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- The often prosecuted founder of one of India's largest evangelical mission groups that rescues orphans and abandoned children has died after a long battle with health problems, his family and organization confirmed Saturday, December 4.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- An advocacy group with close links to Chinese house church Christians said Thursday, ecember 2, that two of its Websites have collapsed under cyber attacks possibly originating from China.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- The wife of Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights lawyer under house arrest in China's Shandong province, has urged the international community to intervene, amid concerns about his health.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists asked Vietnam Monday, November 29, to release pastors who received long prison terms on charges of “undermining national unity."

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-– A Christian teenager "wrongly" convicted of “blasphemy” against Islam was still recovering Sunday, November 28, after Muslim inmates nearly stoned him to death in a prison in Pakistan's northwest Punjab province, Christians and medics said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm remained Saturday, November 27, in several villages of India's troubled state of Orissa after Hindu militants reportedly attacked local Christians as police forces watched nearby.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari will not immediately pardon a Christian who has been sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam, an official reportedly said Thursday, November 25.

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