August 19, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
 KINSHASA/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Congolese police have released detained Dutch missionary Bram Krol after pressure from the Netherlands, friends and colleagues confirmed Friday, August 19.
Tags: Bram, Campaigns, Christians, Congo, Converts, Detained, Elections, Evangelism, Hunger, Kinshasa, Krol, Missionaries, November, Police, Republic, Spiritual, Wars
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August 18, 2011
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by VOA News' Scott Bobb in Jerusalem
 JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife/VOA News)-- Israeli aircraft hit Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip late Thursday, August 19, killing six people, in retaliation for deadly attacks against Israelis earlier in the day.
Tags: Committee, Eilat, Popular, Resistance, Shooting
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August 17, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest
 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Sixteen Hungarian churches have appealed to the country's Constitutional Court to overturn controversial legislation under which they and hundreds of other groups will lose their church status.
Tags: Catholic, Lutheran, Nation, Orban, Orthodox, Reformed
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August 16, 2011
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service
 TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iranian authorities seized thousands of Bibles in north-west Iran and destroyed a church in the Islamic country's south-east as part of a wider crackdown on Christianity, Iranian Christians said in messages monitored by BosNewsLife Tuesday, August 16.
Tags: Agencies, Bibles, Islam, Kerman, Majid Abhari, Mehr, Missionaries, Mohabat, Money, Parliament, Power, Youth
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August 15, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent reporting from Budapest
 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- One of Europe's largest music festivals has been overshadowed by weekend extremist violence. Scores of neo-Nazis and far-right activists attempted to storm the Sziget Festival, which ended Monday, August 15, in the Hungarian capital Budapest. Police detained several demonstrators, including a prominent parliamentarian of the far right Movement for a Better Hungary, Jobbik. The incident has underscored international concerns over rising extremism in Hungary.
Tags: Community, Danube, Extremists, Festival, Island, Jews, Jobbik, Neo-Nazi, Sziget
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August 14, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary's center-right government is under international pressure to revoke a new church law that critics say resembles the Communist-era, BosNewsLife established Sunday, August 14.
Tags: Churches, Clinton, Community, Country, Faith, Freedom House, God, Groups, Orban, Paula, Registration, Religious, Socialists, Victor
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August 10, 2011
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
 ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Fighters of the Islamic militant Boko Haram group have murdered at least 10 Christians in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri in the past two months as part of efforts "to eliminate Christianity" in the area, rights activists said Wednesday, August 10.
Tags: Boko Haram, Group, Islamic, Legislation, Maiduguri, Security
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August 8, 2011
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service
 TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran has released a man who was jailed and tortured for activities linked to his recent conversion to Christianity, but concerns remained Monday, August 8 about two other detained believers, Iranian Christians said.
Tags: Ebrahim Firoozi, Islamic, Miles, Robat-Karim
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August 6, 2011
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
 TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- An evangelical pastor who faces execution in Iran for refusing to abandon his Christian faith has urged fellow believers to remain faithful to Jesus Christ and the “Word of God” despite persecution, according to a letter obtained by BosNewsLife.
Tags: Church, Iran’s Supreme Court, Officials, Rasht, Red Sea, Youcef Nadarkhani
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August 4, 2011
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
 ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A committee of Nigeria's government was investigating Thursday, August 4, how to overcome rapidly spreading Islamic violence, after two weekend bomb explosions near churches in mainly Muslim areas.
Tags: Angwan Rimi, Baptist, Church, Damage, Jos
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KINSHASA/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Congolese police have released detained Dutch missionary Bram Krol after pressure from the Netherlands, friends and colleagues confirmed Friday, August 19.
