Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (BosNewsLife)-- Amid death threats, over a dozen members of the Mengen tribe in the jungles of Papua New Guinea were baptized after "testifying their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," missionaries told BosNewsLife Monday, August 30.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants have killed three American Christian aid workers who were helping victims of Pakistan's worst floods in recent memory, a well-informed source in the Pakistani military told BosNewsLife Saturday, August 28.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service SEOUL/PYONGYANG (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea released an American Christian Friday, August 27, seven months after he was detained for illegally entering the reclusive state to protest reported human rights abuses. ALSO READ:

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By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan LAHORE PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The parents of a Christian Pakistani girl were still searching for their daughter Thursday, August 26, nearly half a year after she was reportedly kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim men, and pressured into embracing Islam.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service PYONGYANG/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea Wednesday, August 25, to try to win the release of a devoted American Christian who has been jailed for illegally entering the isolated state earlier this year. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, aged 30 from Boston, Massachusetts, entered North Korea on January 25 to protest human rights abuses in the communist nation, fellow rights activists said.

By Marshall Ramsey, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Christian house church pastors remeined behind bars Sunday, August 22, a week after they and some members of their congregation were attacked and arrested for preaching the Gospel in India, Christians said.

By George Whitten, BosNewsLife Senior International Correspondent SEOUL/JERUSALEM (BosNewsLife)-- North Korea has reportedly executed three Christians who were meeting in an underground church, BosNewsLife monitored Monday, August 16. Twenty others attending the same worship service were sent to notorious labor camps, said well-informed Catholic news service AsiaNews.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights investigators have urged the international community to reject plans by Burma’s military rulers to organize parliamentary elections on November 7.