Americas

By BosNewsLife North America Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- An elderly anti-abortion activist was attacked and seriously I injured in the American state of Arizona, a week after another 'pro-life' demonstrator was shot and killed, a Christian group confirmed Monday September 21.

By BosNewsLife News Center BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (BosNewsLife)-- A Colombian pastor has been shot and killed at his home in front of his wife and church members, the latest in a series of deadly attacks against Christians in the South American nation, Christian rights investigators said Monday, September 14.

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 News Center WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States Senator Edward Kennedy, a Liberal influential figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's mostknown political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died,his family said Wednesday, August 26. He was 77.

By BosNewsLife News Center HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A pastor’s wife who lost her baby after a neighbour attacked her on the street, is being fined the equivalent of over two months salary on charges of "disturbing the public order" on that day, Christian trial observers said Friday, August 21.

By BosNewsLife News Center HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A Pastor’s wife who miscarried after a neighbour attacked her was due to facing a Cuban court Monday, August 17, on charges of “disturbing the public order” on that day, an international advocacy group said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with reporting from Mexico MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Twenty men, most of them evangelical Christians, were free Friday, August 14, after spending more than a decade in prison as Mexico's Supreme Court overturned their sentences in a massacre in southern Chiapas state.

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 North America Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos LOS ANGELES, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Michael Jackson, who became known as 'the king of pop', has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- At least six Christians from China's Henan province were behind bars Thursday, June 18, after security forces stormed their house church following a similar raid on a house church in Sichuan province, Christian rights investigators said.