Asia/Pacific

By Joe DeCaro, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife) -- A major mission group in India said one of its missionaries was out of jail Saturday, January 31, but cautioned he still awaits trial for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- China has sentenced 10 Christian leaders to long prison terms and forced labor camps as part of a wider government crackdown on unauthorized worship services, BosNewsLife learned Saturday, December 5.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LONDON/RANGOON (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of Christians worldwide will unite in prayer for Burma next week as part of global day of prayer for the nation, organizers said

By Jawad Mazhar Special Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Pakistan GUJRANWALA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian sanitation worker was struggling for his life Tuesday, December 15, in a hospital of Pakistan's Punjab province after two Christian co-workers already died because Muslim employers apparently poisoned them, police and family confirmed.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian woman who spent nearly six months in prison with her infant son in the country's Punjab province on "a false charge of blasphemy", her defense team told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese Christians remained concerned Friday, July 13, over the whereabouts of a newly appointed Chinese bishop who was detained this week after publicly resigning from his position in China's state-backed church.

By Jawad Mazhar, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan HANGGU, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Minority Christians and other non-Muslims faced potential persecution Tuesday, December 30, as militants linked to Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups imposed Shariah, or Islamic law, in the Orakzai Agency tribal region of the restive Pakistani North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials told BosNewsLife.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A man protesting conversions to Christianity went on a shooting spree and exploded a crude bomb in an evangelical church in India's eastern state of Bihar, seriously injuring the pastor and several worshipers, representatives confirmed Tuesday, March 10.

BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A nation-wide alliance of church leaders, denominations, mission groups and other Christian organizations in India urged all political parties Tuesday, February 2, to make defending religious minorities a key priority ahead of upcoming general elections, amid concerns over spreading anti-Christian violence in the country.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (BosNewsLife)-- A young American missionary, who has reportedly been detained for illegally entering North Korea on Christmas Day, was inspired to go there by a biography about the "first Christian martyr" of present day North Korea, suggested an e-mail obtained by BosNewsLife Sunday, December 27.