Americas

By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos BEIJING/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists have urged China not to forcibly repatriate ten North Korean defectors, including a four-year-old child, who were detained by police in Shenyang city.

By BosNewsLife North America Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known activist of one of America's most influential Christian pro-life groups has been shot and killed in the U.S state of Michigan, officials confirmed to BosNewsLife in a statement Friday, September 11.

Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who became known as “America’s Pastor” and was a personal counselor to American presidents, has died at the age of 99, his family spokesman confirmed.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos CARACAS, VENEZUELA (BosNewsLife)-- An influential Catholic relief group says it hopes Venezuela's government will respect religious rights again in the South American nation following the death of President Hugo Chavez, whose Socialist revolution allegedly threatened the Catholic Church.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)-- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence joined tens of thousands of Christians to pray in...

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Some 25 evangelical Christians have refused to leave a troubled area in Mexico's western Jalisco state despite facing persecution in an area where members of the Wixárika tribe hold pagan rituals involving the use of a hallucinogenic drug and sacrifices offered to their 'gods', Christian leaders say.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service MEXICO CITY (BosNewsLife)-- Twenty Protestant families have been forcibly displaced from their homes in western Mexico because of their faith after the government refused to prevent the deportations, an advocacy official told BosNewsLife Friday, January 29.

By George Whitten, BosNewsLife Senior International Correspondent HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- Cuba has released a well-known church leader -and dropped all charges of "threatening behavior" against him, after his accusers gave contradictory evidence, an international Christian rights group said Tuesday, September 7.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with reporting from Mexico MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (BosNewsLife)-- Twenty men, most of them evangelical Christians, were free Friday, August 14, after spending more than a decade in prison as Mexico's Supreme Court overturned their sentences in a massacre in southern Chiapas state.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife HAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- A group of Pentecostal Christians in Cuba's second-largest city is without a place of...