Americas

By BosNewsLife Americas Service BARTOW, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A group of outraged Christian residents in a Florida city planned to meet local officials Monday, October 7, after they were ordered to remove their "God Bless America" yard signs, local media reported.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Pastor Chuck Smith, one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity and a key figure in the ascent of mega-churches, died Thursday morning, October 3,  after losing his two-year battle against lung cancer, church officials said.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A key rights official has "praised" a U.S. House of Representatives resolution for the creation of a special diplomatic envoy for religious freedom in the Middle East.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Gunmen opened fire in the Washington DC Navy Yard killing as many as 13 people and injuring 10 others in what appeared a terror attack, just days after the nation remembered the victims of the September 11 acts of terrorism. Security forces in America's capital were still searching for at least one gunman.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service LIMA, PERU (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists have urged Peru to properly investigate the mass killings of Christians and other civilians, ahead of the 10th anniversary of a historic report by the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC

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 North American and Asian Services with local news reporting BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (BosNewsLife)-- Mourning families from a major evangelical church in the San Fernando Valley of southern California were worshiping Sunday, July 14, without three Christian Chinese students they had been expecting.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos LAKE FOREST, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Famed American Pastor Rick Warren warned Sunday, May 26, that "fake Rick Warren Facebook" website pages have appeared "asking for donations in the name" of his son, who committed suicide last month.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service OKLAHOMA CITY, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Crisis-trained chaplains linked to famed evangelist Billy Graham have arrived "to help spread home" in the U.S. midwestern state of Oklahoma where a rare and powerful tornado claimed at least 24 lives, injured 230 and left dozens missing, officials said.

By Joseph DeCaro WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife Columns)– While the Obama administration carefully avoids any religious connection between Islamic jihad and the Boston bombings, the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation bluntly told Pentagon officials that Christian troops who proselytize are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished.