Americas

By BosNewsLife News Center HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- There was international concern Tuesday, July 14, over the detention of a Cuban Evangelical pastor, after news emerged he has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges that include "counter-revolutionary conduct and attitudes" as part of what rights investigators called “mounting state hostility towards religious groups."

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Leading U.S. lawmakers and government investigators suggest that Christians are now...

By BosNewsLife News Center with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BUDAPEST/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- Christians around the world were urged Saturday, September 10, to leave their church buildings and preach the "Good News of Christ" in what organizers said was "the greatest soul winning effort in church history."

By Marshall Ramsey, BosNewsLife North America Correspondent

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Jailed Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was believed to be still alive Saturday, February 25, after the European Union and the United States urged Iran not to carry out an execution order and demanded his immediate release.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A Pentecostal pastor in Cuba was recovering of brain damage Tuesday, March 13, after he was assaulted while trying to challenge the confiscation of a church truck by Communist authorities, Christians said.

By BosNewsLife News Center NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife) -- Survivors of a spectacular crash landing into the Hudson River thanked God on Friday, January 16, that the right pilot at the right time guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River -- saving all 155 people aboard.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Christian missionaries in Mexico, including foreigners, face more security challenges after a married couple who had served for nearly three decades as Baptist church missionaries were killed, BosNewsLife learned late Friday, February 3.

By Mary Priddy, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent reporting from the United States HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA (BosNewsLife)-- More than half of Americans no longer consider Christianity as the nation's main religion while one in three Christians say "Jesus sinned while He was on earth," a new study claims.

By BosNewsLife News Center WASHINGTON D.C., USA (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of one of the United States' most influential Christian family groups has resigned.