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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- With a nation in turmoil, U.S.-based Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) has asked Christian artists...

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Local authorities in southern Mexico have threatened to cut water supplies to additional evangelical Christian families because they refuse to actively participate in traditional religious Catholic ceremonies, investigators said Tuesday, April 29.

By BosNewsLige Middle East Service CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egyptian Christians appealed for prayers Wednesday, August 14, as dozens of churches were attacked by furious Islamic mobs in response to a deadly government crackdown on protests in the capital Cairo that killed at least scores of people.

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- BosNewsLife's Dec 9-Dec 23 news coverage was dominated by reports on Christians and Jewish people clinging to their faith amid shootings, a changing political environment, and at least some justice for victims of what was Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

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 North America Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians on Wednesday were mourning U.S. Christian evangelist Oral Roberts who died at the age of 91. A spokesman said Roberts died in a hospital in Newport Beach, California Tuesday, December 15, from complications related to pneumonia.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A congregation of evangelical Christians in Russia's capital Moscow were without a church building Tuesday, September 11, after workers with bulldozers and other equipment destroyed their Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church complex, backed by local police, witnesses said.  

By George Whitten, BosNewsLife Senior International Correspondent HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Cuba has released a well-known church leader -and dropped all charges of "threatening behavior" against him, after his accusers gave contradictory evidence, an international Christian rights group said Tuesday, September 7.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Jailed American Pastor Michael Salman faces more prosecution, including up to three-and-a-half years probation and government inspections, for holding an unauthorized Bible study at his home in the U.S. state of Arizona, a well-informed rights official told BosNewsLife Wednesday, August 15.

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.