Asia/Pacific

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- An impoverished Pakistani Christian has been forced to sell his kidney to pay off a loan he took from his Muslim boss to finance his daughter's education, the father and Christians said Tuesday, May 11.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Indian Christians have held a prayer meeting in remembrance of a murdered pastor and other attacks against the Christian minority in India's Madhya Pradesh state.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Chinese pastor was free Saturday, May 8, after being released early from a labor camp, but authorities apparently detained again another Christian and well-known human rights lawyer.

By BosNewsLife Asia News Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A police investigation continued Friday, May 7, into the killing of an Indian evangelist who investigators said was hacked to death in eastern India after showing a film on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani authorities are investigating Pakistan Air Force (PAF) police for allegedly torturing a Christian family, including a teenager, who doctors say may remain crippled for the rest of her life, BosNewsLife established Friday, April 30.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Muslim employer allegedly beat two Christian siblings with an iron rod killing one and seriously injuring the other in Pakistan's Punjab province, an advocacy group said Thursday, April 29.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A young Montagnard Christian man has died in a Vietnamese prison because of torture and abuse, the latest in a series of attacks on Christian prisoners in the communist-run nation, representatives said Wednesday, April 28.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)-- A major Christian rights group has urged Indonesia’s Constitutional Court to repeal blasphemy laws that it claims have been "widely misused to persecute religious minorities" in the Islamic country.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- An influential house church leader is jailed in Laos for more than half a year and he may be killed as authorities fear the spread of Christianity in the region where he has been working, an advocacy group said Friday, April 16.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Four Christians, including three evangelists and a police officer, have been jailed in India's central state of Chhattisgarh for "converting" Hindus to Christianity, after they were injured in an attack by Hindu militants, Christian officials confirmed Saturday April 17.