February 28, 2011
By BosNewsLife News Center
TASHKENT/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Uzbekistan on Monday, February 28, still refused to release some 15,000 Bibles that were seized earlier by customs authorities and the Bible Society of Uzbekistan said one of its staff members was fined for "violating procedures."
Tags: Bible Society of Uzbekistan, Bibles, Justice Ministry, Natalya Pitirimova
Posted in CIS (ex-USSR), Europe, Russia, Uzbekistan | No Comments »
February 27, 2011
(ADDS NEW DETAILS ABOUT ATTACKS, REACTIONS FROM YOUTH WITH A MISSION, MORE BACKGROUND)
By BosNewsLife News Center with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
NAIROBI/GRONINGEN (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Kenya and the Netherlands began mourning Dutch missionary Ebel Kremer, 36, who was shot and killed when armed robbers stormed a mission center near Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
Tags: Ebel Kremer, Groningen, Lora Kremer, Vrije Baptisten Gemeente, Youth With A Mission
Posted in Africa, Europe, Kenya, Netherlands | 10 Comments »
February 27, 2011
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- Scores of terrified villagers faced starvation in the jungles of Laos on Sunday, February 27, after they were driven from their village at gunpoint for refusing to give up Christianity in this predominantly Buddhist nation, residents and rights activists said.
Tags: Katin, Lao, Saravan, Season, Ta-Oyl
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Laos | 4 Comments »
February 26, 2011
By BosNewsLife Americas Service
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (BosNewsLife)-- Christian leaders have urged Honduras' government to improve protection of Christian workers after Carlos Roberto Marroquín became the second prominent pastor to be murdered this year in the Central American nation.
Tags: Carlos Roberto Marroquín, Oscar Alvarez, Oswaldo Canales, San Pedro Sula, Schnauzers
Posted in Americas, Honduras | 1 Comment »
February 25, 2011
(ADDS REACTION FROM CHRISTIAN IN NAIROBI AND OTHERS)
By BosNewsLife News Center
GRONINGEN/NAIROBI (BosNewsLife)-- The 36-year-old Dutch missionary Ebel Kremer has been shot and killed in Kenya during a robbery, his church confirmed Friday, February 25. His wife Lora Kremer, 34, was reportedly raped in the overnight attack on their Christian orphanage in the town of Athi River near the capital Nairobi.
Tags: Athi River, Attacker, Ebel Kremer, Guard, Lora Kremer
Posted in Africa, Kenya | 31 Comments »
February 25, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST/GODOLLO (BosNewsLife)--United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for international intervention in Libya to stop mass killings and bloodshed that she said may amount to crimes against humanity. Her comments Friday came as European defense ministers met in Hungary, where NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen did not rule out enforcing a no-fly zone above Libya among other measures to end the violence.
Tags: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Ban Ki-moon, Navi Pillay
Posted in Europe, Hungary | No Comments »
February 25, 2011
By BosNewsLife Middle East and African Services with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- The deputy to al-Qaida's group leader Osama bin Laden accused Egypt's Christian leadership of "inciting interfaith tensions", despite reports that Egyptian Christians have been killed, injured and kidnapped in several attacks in the predominantly Islamic nation.
Tags: Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, Church, Coptic, Islamists, Network, Terror
Posted in Africa, Egypt, Middle East | No Comments »
February 24, 2011
>Said Musa outside Afghanistan
>Christian convert Shoib Assadullah remains jailed
>Dutch government lobbied for release
By BosNewsLife News Center
KABUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released, a well-informed Christian aid and advocacy group confirmed Thursday, February 24.
Tags: Mark Rutte, Mazar-e-Sharif, Said Musa, Shoib Assadullah
Posted in Europe, Netherlands | 1 Comment »
February 24, 2011
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Somalia were mourning another victim of Islamic extremism Thursday, February 24, while at sea new details emerged about the killing of Americans involved in Bible distribution to often remote areas of the world.
Tags: Bob Riggle, Jean, Marina del Rey, Phyllis Macay, Scott Adam, Seattle, Washington
Posted in Africa, Somalia | 2 Comments »
February 23, 2011
By BosNewsLife News Center
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Afghan Christians who were arrested for their conversion to Christianity remain behind bars despite diplomatic efforts by the United States to secure their release, a Christian rights group said Wednesday, February 23.
Tags: Aidan Clay, Mazar-e-Sharif, Shoaib Assadullah, Taliban
Posted in Afghanistan | No Comments »
