June 25, 2009
By BosNewsLife North America Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
 LOS ANGELES, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Michael Jackson, who became known as 'the king of pop', has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50.
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June 18, 2009
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
 BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- At least six Christians from China's Henan province were behind bars Thursday, June 18, after security forces stormed their house church following a similar raid on a house church in Sichuan province, Christian rights investigators said.
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June 12, 2009
By BosNewsLife North America Service
 WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- An elderly man charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will likely survive the injuries he suffered when other museum guards returned fire, officials said Saturday, June 12.
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June 11, 2009
BosNewsLife North America Service
 WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington was closed Thursday, June 11, after an elderly man known for his anti-Semitic views stormed the building and killed a guard, officials said.
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June 3, 2009
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.
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May 24, 2009
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
 NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- A key Asian mission group mourned Sunday, May 24, the death of Ralph Winter the founder of the U.S. Center for World Missions and, later, William Carey International University. He was 84.
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May 22, 2009
By Stefan J. Bos with reports from the United States and Afghanistan
 WASHINGTON/KABUL (BosNewsLife)-- The president of a US-based group helping Christians persecuted for their faith has expressed outrage that United States military personnel haveburned confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan.
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May 21, 2009
By BosNewsLife News Center
 NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Four men have been detained for allegedly planning to bomb a synagogue and a Jewish community center in the Bronx area of New York City and were expected to appear in federal court Thursday, May 21, police officials said.
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May 7, 2009
By BosNewsLife News Center
 WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States President Barack Obama was to limit his participation in the annual "National Day of Prayer," Thursday, May 7, to signing a proclamation, disappointing both Christian conservatives and atheists who want to end the tradition.
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May 2, 2009
By Dan Robinson, Voice of America Correspondent, special to BosNewsLife
 WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- The latest annual report by the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom names 13 countries as serious violators of religious freedom, BosNewsLife monitored Saturday, May 2, with reporting by the Voice of America network (VOA).
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