Officials in Taiwan worked to lift a TransAsia Airways propjet out of the Keelung River in Taipei Wednesday after the plane clipped its wing on a freeway overpass and cartwheeled into the river, killing 26.
Jordan officials executed two al-Qaeda prisoners on Wednesday, one day after the Islamic State showed a video of Jordanian hostage Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive.
The Earth's crust under Iceland is reportedly "rebounding" as the island's great ice caps melt due to global warming.
Pope Francis has declared that assassinated Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero died as a martyr, expediting the way for his beatification. The late archbishop is now one step away from being declared a saint as those pronounced as martyrs do not require a miracle to enter the process of ...
A young hitchhiker got the surprise of his life when none other than Uruguay President Jose Mujica and his wife, Lucia Topolansky, picked him up from the road sometime last month.
Coalition airstrikes have killed a chemical weapons expert of the Islamic State, with the U.S. military saying this will help in crippling the operations of the Islamic militant group.
The Islamic State terror group has released a video that purportedly shows the Jordanian pilot who was being held hostage being burned alive.
Icelanders announced this week that they will be building their first temple to Norse gods since the end of the Viking age, when Christianity became the primary religion in the country.
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 members of the Muslim Brotherhood political party to death this week, indicating a continued crackdown on religious and political dissidence in the North African country.
An insurance company in the United Kingdom told a Christian minister that she could lose coverage of her car policy because she put stickers in her car.
The rise of the Islamic State was a result of human rights abuses as governments tend to neglect addressing such in the face of security threats, an international human rights watchdog body said.
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.