NEWS ALERT: Pakistan Christian Has Heart Attack Around Death Sentence Appeal
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian father of four who was sentenced to death in Pakistan for "blasphemy against Islam" has been rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack, his friends said Thursday, January 10.
BosNewsLife Weeks In Review: Keeping Faith Between Hardship And Hope
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- BosNewsLife's Dec 9-Dec 23 news coverage was dominated by reports on Christians and Jewish people clinging to their faith amid shootings, a changing political environment, and at least some justice for victims of what was Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
BREAKING NEWS: Shot Swedish Missionary Dies After Pakistan Attack
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife correspondents in Pakistan and Stefan J. Bos at BosNewsLife News Center
LAHORE/STOCKHOLM (BosNewsLife)-- An elderly Swedish missionary who was shot by a gunman while doing Christian work in Pakistan has died from her wounds, her Swedish church confirmed Thursday, December 13.
BosNewsLife Week In Review: Christians Battle Nazism, Starvation, Deadly Attacks (Dec.2-8)
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Devoted Christians in Hungary and the Middle East stood up against Nazism or Islamic extremism this week, while others worshiped Christ behind bars, between bomb explosions and in bitter cold conditions.
Shot Swedish Missionary Fighting For Life In Pakistan
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– An elderly Swedish missionary was believed to fight for her life Saturday, December 8, after she was shot in eastern Pakistan by suspected Islamic militants.
BosNewsLife Week in Review: Christians Killed, Jews Called ‘Security Risk’ By Extremists (Nov.25-Dec.2)
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- BosNewsLife's November 25-December 2 news week began with a massive explosion as at least five people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church inside the Jaji military barracks in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state.
Pakistan Christian Villagers Ordered To Leave; Christian Girl Raped
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Muslim leader has ordered Christian families to burn their homes and leave a village in Pakistan's Punjab province after a villager freed his abducted underage daughter who was "raped and forced to convert to Islam", negotiators told BosNewsLife Friday, November 30.
BosNewsLife’s Week in Review: Christians In Crossfire Challenge World (Nov.18-24)
By BosNewsLife News Center
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- BosNewsLife's busy November 18-24 newsweek saw Christians in the crossfire worshiping behind bars or amid death and destruction from Africa to Gaza and Israel, while in Pakistan a mentally challenged Christian girl was acquitted of blasphemy against Islam. In former Communist nations, including in Hungary, thousands took to the streets, concerned that their new found freedom was once again under threat by the government..
BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan Court Clears Christian Girl Of Blasphemy
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani court on Tuesday, November 20, cleared a mentally challenged Christian girl of "blasphemy against Islam" charges, which can carry the death penalty. The high court in Pakistan's capital Islamabad found the accusations against teenager Rimsha Masih "legally unsound" in a case that drew worldwide attention.
BosNewsLife’s Week in Review: Christians Worship As Islamic Militants Attack And Kill (Nov.11-17)
By BosNewsLife News Center
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The November 11-17 newsweek was marked by reports of Islamic militants attacking churches and, in at least one case, beheading a young Christian man "for leaving Islam", though believers continued to gather in worship expressing their faith in Christ and in their future.