Pakistan

By BosNewsLife Asia Service reporting from Pakistan PESHAWAR/LAHORE (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani Christian family was hiding Sunday, October 13, after allegedly receiving death threats for protesting against twin suicide attacks at a historic church in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar, in which their friends were killed. As many as 171 people died and some 150 people were injured in the September blasts at Peshawar's All Saints Church, church officials said,

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Xavier P. William reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians gathered for protests, prayers and memorial services across  Pakistan to remember the victims of last week's suicide attack at a major church in the violence plagued city of Peshawar, where another powerful bomb ripped through a busy marketplace Sunday, September 29, killing at least 38 people.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Pakistani Christian lawyers on Friday, September 27, demanded a government-led military crackdown on those responsible for Sunday's suicide attack at a church in north-west Pakistan and other militants.

By BosNewsLife Africa and Asia Services with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos at BosNewsLife News Canter and Xavier P. William in Peshawar NAIROBI/PESHAWAR (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Africa and Asia tried to come to terms Friday, September 27, with the aftermath of attacks by Islamic militants that left at least some 150 people dead and hundreds injured, amid global concerns that devoted Christians are increasingly singled out by terrorists.

(CHANGING DEATH TOLL, CHANGING DATELINE AND BYLINE, ADDS MORE INFO AND REACTIONS) By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Xavier P. William reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A suicide bomb attack rocked a historic church in northwest Pakistan Sunday, September 22, killing as many as 85 people and injuring more than 140 following several other anti-Christian incidents in this heavily Islamic nation.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- There was uncertainty Monday, September 16, about the whereabouts of dozens of Christian families who fled their homes in a village near the Pakistani city of Lahore after a local pastor was accused of blasphemy against Islam's Prophet Muhammad, representatives said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of one of Pakistan's largest Pentecostal churches says he is "thankful" to God for persecution after he and other church members were attacked by violent Muslims, with police refusing to intervene

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese government forces threatened to kill a prominent church leader and his family after beating him, as part of a crackdown on house churches, his supporters said Tuesday, August 20.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A leading rights lawyer says he is "disappointed" that a Muslim cleric who "falsely" accused a Christian girl of blasphemy has been released, while several Christians remain in Pakistani jails for allegedly hurting Islamic feelings.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistan court has acquitted a Muslim cleric who accused Christian girl of blasphemy against Islam, before he himself was detained on similar charges, trial observers said.