Americas

By BosNewsLife Americas Service HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Prominent Catholic dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer was free Monday, August 6, after he was detained for some 36 hours in Cuba's eastern city of Holguin.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- An American pastor remained jailed in "prison camp-like conditions" Sunday, August 5, for holding an unauthorized Biblestudy meeting at his home in the U.S. state of Arizona amid concerns about a possible "North Korean-style" crackdown in the country, his lawyer and activists said.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian advocacy group urged Cuba on Wednesday to release prominent rights activist Jose Daniel Ferrer, a devoted Catholic, who went missing this week in the Communist island nation.  

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Some 90 Christian youngsters were recovering Sunday, July 15, after a dozen armed men went on a hours-long rampage of beatings, robberies and rape, at a church youth camp on the outskirts of Mexico City, authorities said Sunday, July 15.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MIAMI/HAVANA (BosNewsLife)-- A prominent Christian rights activist and independent journalist from Cuba is spending her first weekend in freedom after arriving in the United States to escape reported persecution at home, her supporters confirmed.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife SANTA LUCIA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Some 10,000 people attended Cuba's first evangelistic outdoor rally in decades with many accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior at the event, where a huge storm miraculously passed, an evangelical aid and mission group said Thursday, June 28.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Donna Summer has arrived where she wanted to be most: at home with the Lord. At least that's what later songs reveal of the American superstar and married mother of three children who passed away at age 63 after losing her battle with cancer.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos KRALENDIJK, BONAIRE (BosNewsLife)-- International Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) was struggling Sunday, May 13, to prevent flooding at one of its main transmitter sites on the island of Bonaire.

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife Columns)-- The United States has expressed concerns over the detention of Christians in Vietnam. Following is an editorial reflecting the views of the U.S. government as broadcast by the Voice of America (VOA) network and picked up by BosNewsLife Columns, the editorial division of BosNewsLife News Agency

By BosNewsLife Americas Service HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Over two months after a Cuban pastor was beaten and left unconscious in eastern Cuba, officials have still no suspects in the case, Christian rights activists told BosNewsLife Wednesday, April 10.