October 18, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Stefan J. Bos with BosNewsLife Middle East Service
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- The wife of a prominent evangelical pastor in Iran was free Monday, October 18, after four months of detention, but her husband still faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam, the Church of Iran said.
Tags: Apostasy, Assize, Gilan, Pastor Nadarkhan
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October 17, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Kolontar and Budapest
KOLONTAR/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Nearly two weeks after toxic sludge flooding in Hungary killed at least nine people and injured over 120 others, villagers are returning home. The arrivals come shortly after the government ordered the resumption of production at the MAL Zrt aluminum plant that has been linked to the disaster.
Tags: Kolontar, Sludge, Toxic, Victims
Posted in Europe, Hungary | No Comments »
October 16, 2010
By Joseph C. DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent
ALGIERS, ALGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Algerian court has acquitted two Christians of breaking the Ramadan fast despite the prosecution's demand that they be punished for "insulting Islam," BosNewsLife learned Sunday, October 16.
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October 15, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Kolontar, Hungary
KOLONTAR, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungarian authorities released on Wednesday the director of an alumina plant that flooded several towns with toxic waste, killing nine people, injuring at least 100 others. Government officials say production at the metals plant will resume by Friday, despite concerns among local residents about more flooding.
Tags: Bakonyi, Devecser, Kolontar, Metals
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October 14, 2010
By Marshall Ramsey II, BosNewsLife International Correspondent
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, remained missing Thursday, October 14, after they were detained along with their translator in China's Henan province during a police raid on a Chinese house church, a well-informed advocacy group said.
Tags: Henan, Ma Hanzhong, Nanyang City, Wancheng District
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October 13, 2010
By Joseph C. DeCaro, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent with BosNewsLife Asia Service
KARNATAKA, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- A Pentecostal pastor in India's state of Karnataka has been detained on charges of conducting "false religious conversions" after Hindu militants attacked him during a church service, the latest clash over spreading Christianity in the predominantly Hindu nation, representatives said Wednesday, October 13 .
Tags: Conversions, Global Council, Karnataka, Pastor
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October 12, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Hungary's disaster area in Kolontar and Devecser
KOLONTAR/DEVECSER (BosNewsLife)-- Hungarian police on Monday detained the managing director of a metals plant where a reservoir burst last week, flooding several towns with toxic waste - killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100 others. Before his arrest, Zoltan Bakonyi told BosNewsLife that his company was not guilty of negligence, as authorities contend.
Tags: Angry, Devecser, Residents, Zoltan Bakonyi
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October 7, 2010
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The European Union says flooding in Hungary that has killed four people and injured more than 100 others could affect half a dozen nations as poisonous mud threatens to enter the Danube River, one of Europe's main waterways. The flooding began on Monday when a dam holding back toxic waste at a metals plant burst west of the Hungarian capital.
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October 5, 2010
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.
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October 4, 2010
By Marshall Ramsey II, BosNewsLife Special Correspondent with BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Members of a church in China's Shandong province were recovering from injuries Tuesday, October 4, after an angry mob attacked them amid threats by authorities to destroy their church and reduce their land, representatives said.
Tags: China Aid, Movement, Shandong, Three-Self Patriotic
Posted in Asia/Pacific, China | 1 Comment »
