NEWS WATCH: NATO Pressured as 230,000 Flee Battles in Eastern Ukraine
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
KYIV, UKRAINE (BosNewsLife)-- The NATO military alliance has come under pressure to increase security as hundreds of thousands of people flee battles between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine.
NEWS ALERT: British Airways Employee Wins Case Over Wearing Cross
By BosNewsLife News Center
STRASBOURG/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian employee of British Airways (BA) has won a landmark legal battle over her right to wear a cross at work.
Europe Court Condemns Hungary’s Church Law Again
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary's embattled government is weighing its options after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld an April ruling in favour of evangelical and other denominations who were stripped of their church status under controversial legislation.
Auschwitz Survivor Doubts Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust Past In Probe
--Late Author Accused Of Stealing Identity
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A Hungarian-born Jewish survivor of Nazi death camps isn't surprised that only a few people attended the funeral for self-proclaimed Holocaust witness and famed author Elie Wiesel. "They buried Wiesel quickly after his death so journalists could not see that he didn't have a tattoo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp," said Nikolaus (Miklós) Grüner.
NEWS WATCH: Massive Rallies As Divided Hungary Remembers 1956 Revolution
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Deeply divided Hungary has marked the 56th anniversary of its crushed 1956 Revolution against Soviet domination and Communist rule with massive rallies for, and against, the center-right government.
Thousands at Beautification of Lithuania’s Catholic martyr Matulionis
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent
VILNIUS/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of people have gathered in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to attend the official beautification ceremony of Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis, whom became a symbol of persecution endured by Christians when the country was still part of the Soviet Union.
Mounting Concerns Over Detained Uzbekistan Pastor
By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent reporting from the Netherlands and BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos at BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
TASHKENT/BUDAPEST/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- An international protest was underway Tuesday, May 12, to obtain the release of a detained, frail, evangelical pastor in Uzbekistan, who came to symbolize what rights investigators described as widespread persecution of Christians and other minorities in Central Asia.
BREAKING: World Leaders Lead Charlie Hebdo March Amid Controversy (Live)
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By BosNewsLife News Center
PARIS, FRANCE (BosNewsLife)-- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among leaders participating in Sunday's march to honor 17 victims of terrorism, which began with a massacre at a satirical weekly and continued with attacks on a Kosher supermarket, after he urged Jewish people to relocate.
NEWS ALERT: French Jihadist Detained Over Deadly Attack On Jewish Museum
By BosNewsLife News Center
BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A suspected French jihadist who spent time in Syria has been detained over his alleged involvement in the shooting deaths of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum, police said.