Pakistani-American Pastor And Wife Shot Dead in Islamabad
The pastor of a Christian church and his American wife were shot dead in their home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said Thursday, August 30.
The pastor of a Christian church and his American wife were shot dead in their home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, police said Thursday, August 30.
Afghanistan’s militant Taliban movement released the last seven remaining South Korean Christian hostages Thursday, August 30, ending their six-week kidnapping ordeal.
A group of 30 Hindu radicals beat up an Indian pastor and two of his church members during a worship service on Sunday, August 26.
Christian aid workers rushed to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad Sunday, August 26, as the death toll of powerful blasts rose to at least 42 there, while other Christian activists were busy helping churches attacked by suspected Hindu militants, BosNewsLife established.
Christians on Sunday, August 26, managed to free an evangelical pastor who was kidnapped by Hindu militants in Bangalore, India’s third most populous city, shortly after he was beaten and nearly killed, an official told BosNewsLife.
China’s central government has launched a nationwide campaign to crackdown on what it calls “illegal religious activities,” targeting especially Christians, BosNewsLife learned from investigators Saturday, August 25.
The fate of at least 15 Christian leaders in Zimbabwe remained uncertain Friday, August 24, after they were detained for attending a prayer meeting near the capital Harare without permission from police, opposition sources confirmed.
Christians in Eritrea confirmed yesterday that a Protestant pastor in Asmara who disappeared 11 days ago remains missing.
A group of 30 Hindu radicals from the Rastriya Swayem Sevaks (RSS) organization, attacked 18 Bible school students, who were on an evening walk at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 21.
Local Muslims in Nilphamari district and Islamist missionaries from abroad are hauling recently converted Christians to mosques and forcing them to return to Islam, area sources said.
A tribe in Papua New Guinea has publicly asked forgiveness for killing and eating four missionaries nearly 130 years ago, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, August 21.
Hindu militants have threatened to burn to death an Indian evangelical pastor and his family if they don’t close their Pentecostal church and leave a suburb of Bangalore, India’s third largest city, Christian supporters said Monday, August 20.
A German evangelical development worker who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has been freed, her organization and Afghan officials confirmed Monday, August 20.
The ailing American evangelist Billy Graham was resting Sunday, August 19, after being admitted to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, officials said.
Tensions remained high Sunday, August 19, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu after a reported crackdown by militants on Dalit Christians in which a pastors’ brother and a local official were killed.
An elderly jailed house church activist remained in “life danger” Saturday, August 18, as her health rapidly deteriorates because of abuses in prison, her family said.
The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) — www.persecution.org – has told ANS that it has just learned that an Egyptian Christian surgeon that had been held captive by the Saudi government is on his way home after ICC publicized his story.
Christians and Hindus in northern Pakistan have received dozens of letters threatening them with death if they refuse to become Muslims, church sources and a police official said yesterday.
There was international concern Tuesday, August 14, about the fate of two detained Baptist leaders in the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
The militant Taliban movement on Monday, August 13, released two of the 21 remaining South Korean Christians held hostage in Afghanistan, BosNewsLife monitored.