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By BosNewsLife North America Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- An elderly man charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will likely survive the injuries he suffered when other museum guards returned fire, officials said Saturday, June 12.

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 Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Stefan J. Bos LOS ANGELES, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A professor at the government-funded University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has prohibited a graduating student from saying "I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," in her own graduation speech, amid a heated debate over using that name in public across the United States, BosNewsLife established Wednesday, June 3.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- A key Asian mission group mourned Sunday, May 24, the death of Ralph Winter the founder of the U.S. Center for World Missions and, later, William Carey International University. He was 84.

By Stefan J. Bos with reports from the United States and Afghanistan WASHINGTON/KABUL (BosNewsLife)-- The president of a US-based group helping Christians persecuted for their faith has expressed outrage that United States military personnel haveburned confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan.

By BosNewsLife News Center NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Four men have been detained for allegedly planning to bomb a synagogue and a Jewish community center in the Bronx area of New York City and were expected to appear in federal court Thursday, May 21, police officials said.

By BosNewsLife News Center WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States President Barack Obama was to limit his participation in the annual "National Day of Prayer," Thursday, May 7, to signing a proclamation, disappointing both Christian conservatives and atheists who want to end the tradition.

By Dan Robinson, Voice of America Correspondent, special to BosNewsLife WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- The latest annual report by the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom names 13 countries as serious violators of religious freedom, BosNewsLife monitored Saturday, May 2, with reporting by the Voice of America network (VOA).

By BosNewsLife News Center NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A gunman opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, in the northeastern state of New York, Friday, April 3, killing at least a 13 people before killing himself, US officials said. The shootings apparently happened after he took at least 20 people as hostages.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (BosNewsLife)-- The young family of a missing evangelical pastor in Colombia was still waiting Wednesday, March 25, for Colombian authorities to launch an official investigation into his disappearance six months ago, amid concerns he may be the latest victim of violence against Christian leaders in the South American country.