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Listen to this morning BosNewsLife News report via Vatican Radio   And the updated evening BosNewsLife News report via Vatican Radio click here: floodingexteavati By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife PRAGUE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of people have been evacuated in Central and Eastern Europe where flooding and heavy rainfall has left at least a dozen people dead or missing. Rescue workers and soldiers desperately tried to protect millions of people in especially Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, but the raging water still managed to inundate areas across the region.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- As many as 100,000 visitors from around the world are expected to attend the 16th Hungarian Jewish Summer Festival in Budapest, Europe's largest cultural event of its kind. The nine-day Festival, which ends September 2 and is supported by churches, comes despite concern over rising antisemitism in the country

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Foreign missionaries living in Hungary fear they will be forced to leave the country under new tax legislation, amid a wider government crackdown on religious groups.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife BUDAPEST/SARAJEVO (BosNewsLife)-- Preliminary election results in ethnically divided Bosnia-Herzegovina suggest that its three-person presidency will remain deadlocked over the country's future, with two leaders of the ethnically divided nation advocating unity and a third pushing for its breakup. Sunday's vote has been closely watched by the international community.

By Martin Roth, BosNewsLife Senior Columnist MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BosNewsLife Columns)-- The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union sparked hopes among Christians for a new era of religious freedom. Sadly, these dreams have been only partially realized. This has been confirmed in the 2016 Open Doors World Watch List of the 50 countries where Christians are most severely persecuted for their faith.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife SKOPJE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The people of Macedonia voted Sunday, April 5, in the final round of presidential and local elections that are seen as key for the country's efforts to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. A right-leaning candidate was expected to win.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife MAKHACHKALA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Russia's violent, mainly Muslim republic of Dagestan, has died after being shot in the head, in an apparent bid to intimidate converts from Islam, Christian rights activists and police said Friday, July 16.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Zagreb, Croatia with additional reporting by Linda Bordoni in Vatican City ZAGREB, CROATIA (BosNewsLife)-- Residents...

  Listen to this BosNewsLife News report via Vatican Radio:  By BosNewsLife News Center with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WARSAW/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Amid political upheaval, world...

By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos DUSHANBE/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Devoted Christians in several areas of Tajikistan faced uncertainty Tuesday, January 5, over the future of their churches after the former Soviet republic introduced a new religion law that the United States has criticized as highly restrictive.