February 6, 2010
By BosNewsLife News Center

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A religious liberty group warned Saturday, February 6, that "Anti-Christian hostility is getting increasingly deadly" in the United States after two street preachers were shot and killed by a teenager who apparently opposed their message.
Tags: Boynton Beach, Florida, Stephen Ocean, Tite Sufra
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February 5, 2010
By BosNewsLife News Center

WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described international religious freedom as "important" at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, but a group investigating persecution of Christians said the administration should turn its words into deeds.
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February 1, 2010
By BosNewsLife Americas Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- There was international disappointment Monday, February 1, that the leader of a growing network of independent churches in Cuba has been denied the right to appeal his six-year prison sentence by the Supreme Tribunal in Havana.
Tags: Apostolic, Castro, Omar Gude Perez, Reformation
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February 1, 2010
By BosNewsLife News Center

TORONTO, CANADA (BosNewsLife)-- Glenn Penner, who became a key voice for persecuted Christians as leader of advocacy group The Voice of the Martyrs Canada (VOMC) has died after losing his battle with cancer, officials said. He was 48.
Tags: Canada, Glenn Penner, Voice of the Martyrs
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January 19, 2010
By BosNewsLife Americas Service

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (BosNewsLife)-- A major Christian mission organization stepped up efforts Tuesday, January 18, to coordinate relief efforts in Haiti as the death toll of last week's earth quake was expected to be at least 200,000, officials said.
Tags: Haiti, MAF, Missionary
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January 13, 2010
By BosNewsLife News Center

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (BosNewsLife)-- Churches and missionary workers were trying to respond to Haiti's worst earth quake in centuries that officials said may have killed up to half a million people, including the the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince, other Christians and United Nations personnel.
Tags: Joseph Serge Miot, Port-Au-Prince, Rene Preval
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January 2, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- Thanking listeners for their "prayers and good thoughts," America's controversial conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was released from a Hawaii hospital, after experiencing severe chest pain and what he thought was a heart attack.
Tags: Hawaii, Host, Limbaugh, Radio
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December 31, 2009
By BosNewsLife North America Service, with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

NEW YORK, USA (BosNewsLife)-- Rush Limbaugh, America's most listened to conservative radio talk show host, was "resting comfortably" Thursday, December 31, after being rushed to a Honolulu hospital with chest pains, his Web site said.
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December 28, 2009
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (BosNewsLife)-- A young American missionary, who has reportedly been detained for illegally entering North Korea on Christmas Day, was inspired to go there by a biography about the "first Christian martyr" of present day North Korea, suggested an e-mail obtained by BosNewsLife Sunday, December 27.
Tags: Biography, Korean, Park, Pyongyang
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December 26, 2009
By BosNewsLife North America Service with BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos

WASHINGTON/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- The White House said Saturday, December 26, that a small explosion aboard an international flight bound for the U.S. city of Detroit was "an attempted act of terrorism."
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