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BosNewsLife News Center NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Investigators rushed to suburban Buffalo in the U.S. state of New York, Friday, February 13, after a commuter plane coming in for a landing crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and one in the home, officials said. Two others in the house reportedly escaped with minor injuries.

BosNewsLife North America Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington was closed Thursday, June 11, after an elderly man known for his anti-Semitic views stormed the building and killed a guard, officials said.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (BosNewsLife)-- Rights activists on Wednesday, September 19, demanded a "full investigation" into the murder of Protestant Pastor Henry Rodriguez, who was shot dead near his church in the capital Bogota, after dozens of other church leaders were reportedly killed elsewhere in Colombia.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his wife said Saturday. Saying "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind" Armstrong captivated the world by carefully walking on the lunar surface.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence joined tens of thousands of Christians to pray in...

HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Cuban authorities are targeting a top religious rights advocate and other activists as well as Christian leaders with travel bans and visits by security agents amid growing tensions with Washington, BosNewsLife established Thursday, June 22.

By BosNewsLife North America Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known activist of one of America's most influential Christian pro-life groups has been shot and killed in the U.S state of Michigan, officials confirmed to BosNewsLife in a statement Friday, September 11.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service BARTOW, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A group of outraged Christian residents in a Florida city planned to meet local officials Monday, October 7, after they were ordered to remove their "God Bless America" yard signs, local media reported.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service LIMA, PERU (BosNewsLife)-- Religious rights activists on Thursday, August 30, welcomed a Peruvian court decision to put put four military officers on trial on charges of "crimes against humanity" for a 1984 massacre, which claimed the lives of 123 villagers, most of them Christians.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Pastor Chuck Smith, one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity and a key figure in the ascent of mega-churches, died Thursday morning, October 3,  after losing his two-year battle against lung cancer, church officials said.