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BELGRADE, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, (BosNewsLife) -- An independent election center says pro-Western candidate Boris Tadic beat his ultra nationalist rival,

NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife/VOA)-- In New York, Washington and elsewhere, the nation has been marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks with solemn memorial services and heartfelt tributes. Seven years after the attacks, New Yorkers gathered at the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Thirteen Hindu militants have been detained for their alleged involvement in raping two Catholic nuns in India's seaside town of Alibag amid fresh warnings that religious violence is increasing across the country, a church advocacy group said Saturday, March 22.

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife) -- An Egyptian convert to Christianity who filed a law suit for his conversion to be officially recognized remained in hiding Friday, August 10, after his lawyer reportedly received death threats from Egypt's secret service.

TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife) -- Two evangelical Christians from Jizzakh Region of central Uzbekistan have spent ten days in prison in June in punishment for their religious activity, rights watchers close to

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BosNewsLife)-- Just days before he was shot and killed in his church in Turkey's black sea port of Trabzon, Priest Andrea Santoro urged Pope Benedict XVI to visit

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas reportedly reached a ceasefire deal late Monday, January 29, but nearby Israel warned it will

(ADDS COMMENTS PASTOR AND LAWYER, MORE DETAILS)MANILA, PHILIPPINES (BosNewsLife)-- The Philippines Court of Appeals ordered the release Thursday, September 11, of a Protestant pastor who was detained for over 15 months, and allegedly tortured, on trumped up charges of murder, south of Manilla.

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- New clashes between Hindus and Christians in India's eastern state of Orissa has left at least one woman dead and more than a dozen people injured, some critically, police said Tuesday, September 30.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife) -- An estimated 500,000 people, many of them carrying national flags and symbols, demonstrated in