Indonesian officials have dropped their proposal to require graduating female high school students to undergo virginity tests before they are allowed to receive their diplomas following a public outcry.
An international watchdog group said this week that Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in mass rape incident in the city of Darfur last year.
Deceased American hostage Kayla Mueller may have been paired with a male Islamic State fighter while in captivity, anonymous government officials announced this week.
The U.S. has declared a former rapper to be a global terrorist due to his connection with the Islamic State terrorist group.
The Vatican has finished building shower and barber facilities for the homeless and poor just off St. Peter's Square in Rome.
The Vatican in Rome, Italy has announced plans to open public showers and barbers free of charge for the homeless community.
The World Health Organization has revealed that new cases of the Ebola virus have risen for the first time this year on the three most affected West African countries – Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
A wanted Islamic terrorist linked with Al-Qaeda is now believed to be dead following a disastrous raid conducted in the Philippines by Filipino police commandos last Jan. 25, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced. The raid led to the death of more than 40 members of an elite unit of the ...
Jordan has sworn to eradicate the so-called Islamic State while announcing the killing of 7,000 ISIS fighters after three days of airstrikes. In another major development, the United Arab Emirates has announced that it is set to join the airstrikes on the jihadist group based in Syria and Iraq.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner drew rebuke from Chinese netizens for mocking the accent of her hosts when she visited China last week to drum up financial support for her country.
U.S. President Barack Obama called the visiting Dalai Lama a "good friend" during their first public encounter in Washington last week, a move that infuriated Beijing which described the American president as "playing with fire."
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.